Re: [GHM 2022] GNU Jitter workshop?

[Egeyar Bagcioglu]

Ciao Luca!

> As part of the GHM plan I would like to organise a GNU Jitter practical
> workshop, following Mohammad's talk on the same topic.
>
> I would present a problem to solve (writing a JIT for a very simple
> programming language, yielding reasonably good performance), divided
> into small steps.
>
> For each step I would give you time to work on your laptops and solve a
> sub-problem, until in the end you obtain a complete working program at
> the end.
>
> I will be available to unblock you when you become stuck, and will
> implement a complete solution live at the end of each step.
>
> In order to participate you will need a laptop with a GNU/Linux system
> already installed (a VM is sufficient), plus a few prerequisites that
> will be announced in advance including Jitter.
>
> The workshop will be accessible to C programmers even without knowledge
> of compilers or programming languages.  I will provide a frontend
> (scanner and parser) ready to download, already written.
>
> For the attendees: would you be interested in participating?  Please
> tell me either here replying to ghm-discuss@gnu.org or in private.

I suppose you already know my response: I would love to follow such a
workshop on jitter, which would leave me with a working example on my
own notebook. I hope you do realize this idea.

Cheers!
Ege