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Tanton Gibbs  
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 More options Jan 18 2003, 2:48 am
Newsgroups: perl.perl6.internals
From: thgi...@deltafarms.com (Tanton Gibbs)
Date: Sat, 18 Jan 2003 01:10:29 -0500
Local: Sat, Jan 18 2003 1:10 am
Subject: Re: Parrot compilers
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Yes, languages should now use IMCC as their target.  Basically, they
generate IMCC instructions without regards for optimization and such so that
only a lexer/parser is needed.  Take a look at the bf and ook languages for
an example.  I think perl6 is also heading there.

Tanton

----- Original Message -----
From: "Cory Spencer" <cspen...@sprocket.org>
To: <perl6-intern...@perl.org>
Sent: Friday, January 17, 2003 9:10 PM
Subject: Parrot compilers

> Hey folks -

> In my wanders through the parrot/languages subdirectories, it appears that
> most example languages implement a complete compiler (ie lexxer -> parser
> -> optimizer -> code emitter), which seems to be somewhat of a
> duplication of labour.  Has or is anyone worked on a framework a la gcc
> which would only require that new languages have a lexxer/parser written
> that coerced data into a standardized AST which could be passed off to
other
> compilation stages?  (Similarly, other end targets (such as Java bytecode
> or native code would only require the implementation of a new code
> emission module.)

> -c


 
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