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[rebcode] Rebcode discussion

Volker
15-Oct-2005
[394x2]
Right. WOuld be nearly another kind of markup for most things. This 
computed gotos may not work, but the rest should.
tcc, even available as library. But x86 only afaik.
Pekr
15-Oct-2005
[396]
so you could e.g. convert rebcode to dll and redirect the call, to 
get native C level speed? Hmm, sounds like there are some options 
for the future :-)
Volker
15-Oct-2005
[397x2]
Yes, that would be possible. Similar to doing it with a jit, only 
slower compilation and bigger compiler.
Butmost easy to start with IMHO. Once it works, Carl cant resist 
to beat it with something own anyway :) But not really possible without 
access to rebol-values.
BrianH
15-Oct-2005
[399]
Volker, you wouldn't need to provide hooks if you pass those values 
as parameters.
Pekr
15-Oct-2005
[400]
I wonder if there would be someone so insane to try convert rebol 
interpreter iself into rebcode :-)
Volker
15-Oct-2005
[401]
But we are talking rebcode, and rebcode can do more. for example 
you can write a forall in rebcode, but not with routines.
Pekr
15-Oct-2005
[402]
... hmm, that would be slower after all, forget that ....
Volker
15-Oct-2005
[403]
I guess Carl will be that insane, one day, in hollydays. :))
BrianH
15-Oct-2005
[404]
Pekr, that's the compiler I was thinking to build :)
Volker
15-Oct-2005
[405x2]
I guess Pekr did not mean to compile rebol, but to have a real interpreter, 
as the one which is now in c.
or?
Pekr
15-Oct-2005
[407x2]
Volker, I know, but some time ago I though that e.g. you have rebol 
block for e.g. and I thought that there might be some api, kind of 
DOM, so that from C library, you would access it via such structure 
and you would manipulate rebol datatype value directly
I e.g. did small dll some time ago to do some histogram etc. stuff 
with image. Image is easy - four bytes of values per pixel - worked 
well, but I modified binary value directly. Now imagine how would 
you work with rebol block in C level eventually :-)
Volker
15-Oct-2005
[409]
Yes, that is what i would want too. then you can jit rebcode with 
a c-compiler.
BrianH
15-Oct-2005
[410x2]
Volker, I've heard that some people are trying to make tcc portable 
(to ARM so far) but they aren't that far yet.
That's why I suggested LLVM.
Volker
15-Oct-2005
[412]
AFAIK AmigaDE has good compilers for various cpus, around 40k. But 
that means money.
BrianH
15-Oct-2005
[413]
Or for that matter, Mono is available as a library, and you can access 
the .NET runtime that way too.
Volker
15-Oct-2005
[414]
Or java. Problem with that is, they are not optimized for unions, 
and rebol depends on them.
BrianH
15-Oct-2005
[415]
Oh well, now that there is an official (alpha) release of rebcode, 
I submitted my HERE directive to RAMBO.
Volker
15-Oct-2005
[416]
But Carl said once, a good jit like ADE would take him a month. Now 
if we can put him that long on vacation.. :))
Pekr
15-Oct-2005
[417x2]
BrainH: use RT Q & A group here, that might be faster :-)
hmm, but most of that stuff is several times the size of rebol itself 
:-)
Volker
15-Oct-2005
[419]
Jump on Gabriele when he shows up..
Pekr
15-Oct-2005
[420]
Isn't there really a stuff like 40KB, free, crossplatform, so that 
we could have it "onboard"? :-)
BrianH
15-Oct-2005
[421]
I tried that. It only worked with things they were already working 
on. Gabriele and my sleep schedules have very little overlap :(
Volker
15-Oct-2005
[422]
IIRC tcc is around 100, but with c-parseron board.
BrianH
15-Oct-2005
[423]
Pekr, that would mean Forth :)
Pekr
15-Oct-2005
[424]
BrianH: if HERE is really important, then I suggest you to use even 
more drastic methods to get Gabriele's attention, like telling him 
Pizza and Spaggeti don't come from Italy and that Italy can't play 
decent football :-))
BrianH
15-Oct-2005
[425]
I've never seen an Italian try to play football. Oh, do you mean 
soccer? :)
Pekr
15-Oct-2005
[426]
yes, soccer, they are quite good in it :-)
BrianH
15-Oct-2005
[427]
Never been to Italy (that includes DevCon2005, darnit), so I'll take 
your word for it.
Pekr
15-Oct-2005
[428]
BrianH - where're you from?
BrianH
15-Oct-2005
[429]
Chicago, Illinois, USA
Volker
15-Oct-2005
[430]
Spaggethi not from italy? MAybe this helps arguing? http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/10/15/022201&tid=14
:)
Pekr
15-Oct-2005
[431]
that's quite far away from here :-) But isn't it close to Sassneranch? 
Maybe you could visit Carl to talk to him personally :-)
BrianH
15-Oct-2005
[432]
Ah, but proper pizza is from Chicago :)
Pekr
15-Oct-2005
[433]
:-)
BrianH
15-Oct-2005
[434x2]
That's more than a thousand miles away. Not a quick jaunt.
Mapquest say that just to get to their zip code, it would take 31 
hours 55 minutes in time, 2194 miles in distance.
Gabriele
15-Oct-2005
[436]
i already asked Carl about HERE. he hasn't aswered yet, but that 
does not mean he won't.
BrianH
15-Oct-2005
[437x3]
In rebcode, testing not x, before ==> after:
true  ==> false
false  ==> true
none  ==> none  (three-valued logic, SQL here we come)
1  ==> 0  (bitwise)
1.0  ==> 1.0  (unchanged)
a

  ==> REBOL goes away without warning (where's that type inferencer?)
Thanks Gabriele! I wasn't meaning to be a jerk - I meant it about 
Carl being busy :(
Now you have a nice RAMBO entry to work with.
Gabriele
15-Oct-2005
[440]
indeed, i was referring to Petr's message, rather than yours. :-)
BrianH
15-Oct-2005
[441x3]
Well, I think putting an entry in the Rebol Enhancements group or 
in RAMBO beats drivinf 2194 miles :)
What did Carl mean about rebcode modifying memory? I'm a little worried 
about these use-an-opcode-wrong, REBOL-goes-away errors.
That  NOT x  crash can be worked around by doing a  SETT x GETT x 
 to make sure the value is compatible.