Re: Drawing the line between speed and simplicity/elegance

[Brigham Toskin <brighamtoskin@...>]

So after a lot of prototyping and reading and discussion, I've come up with a plan for moving forward with my compiler project. I think I've come up with a workable compromise amongst simplicity, elegance, efficiency, and flexibility. I just published a writeup of my thoughts and the reasons behind my decisions, in case anyone is interested. (I don't make any ad money off click-throughs, so I don't feel bad posting here.)

http://blog.ionoclast.com/2015/05/the-future-of-firth-pre-alpha2-and-beyond/

TL;DR: I'm gonna be manipulating the lua stack /varargs in the main thread, and changing how I compile / generate code to match.

On Mon, May 11, 2015 at 1:30 PM, Brigham Toskin <brighamtoskin@gmail.com> wrote:

On Sun, May 10, 2015 at 1:13 AM, Coda Highland <chighland@gmail.com> wrote:

The claim is that the cache benefit outweighs the few lost optimizations you would have otherwise had.

Yeah, I might especially expect this on systems where cache size is more of a limiting factor than than raw compute speed, such as an ARM-based system.

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