From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v753) In-Reply-To: <20080128233615.B0DC61E8C2B@holo.morphisms.net> References: <20080128233615.B0DC61E8C2B@holo.morphisms.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Message-Id: Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Pietro Gagliardi Subject: Re: [9fans] pico Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2008 19:30:56 -0500 To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Topicbox-Message-UUID: 3c692716-ead3-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 Wow, that's very impressive! open: /tmp/something does not exist (2x) no image lerp no image doug But you have a preview, which I was going to add soon. I am sticking with my code interpreter because I know how to use one (I toiled over hoc. and fossil ate my code up last December) and it doesn't require hooking to a C compiler. I do like the preprocessor idea though. On Jan 28, 2008, at 6:36 PM, Russ Cox wrote: >> Byron Rakitzis (of posix rc fame) produced a version popi with the >> JIT >> compiler, though sadly his where for cpus which are common cpus >> these days. > > Computers and compilers are fast enough now > that you can get away with just feeding code > into a C compiler instead of writing a full JIT. > And there's no porting to do! > > I just put a pico on sources that does this - 738 lines, > not many of which are the "JIT". > > 9fs sources > cd /n/sources/contrib/rsc/pico > mk demo > > Russ >