Racket and Assembly

[Daniel Santos]

Hi.

I really want to know is if Racket compiles code directly into assembly?
Or does it do: Racket -> C -> Assembly ? Or something else ?

Thank you

[Matt Jadud]

Hi Daniel,

As a start to answering your question(s), you might try the 2019 ICFP experience report on rebuilding Racket on top of Chez Scheme is probably a good place to look.

https://www.cs.utah.edu/plt/publications/icfp19-fddkmstz.pdf

This will give you an overview of the architecture of the language/runtime, and should serve as a starting point for additional questions.

Cheers,

Matt

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[Hendrik Boom]

On Wed, Dec 30, 2020 at 02:44:35PM -0500, Matt Jadud wrote:
> Hi Daniel,
>
> As a start to answering your question(s), you might try the 2019 ICFP
> experience report on rebuilding Racket on top of Chez Scheme is probably a
> good place to look.
>
> https://www.cs.utah.edu/plt/publications/icfp19-fddkmstz.pdf
>
> This will give you an overview of the architecture of the language/runtime,
> and should serve as a starting point for additional questions.
>
> Cheers,
> Matt

There is an implementation that was designed to compile straight to C:
Gambit.
You can also use it to compile to C++ if you need to.

It has mechanisms that allow you, if you wish, to specify how entities
you define will be translated. (I strongly suspect that these
mechanisms are used in its implementation).

This makes it useful as a kind of scripting language on top of C.

These mechanisms are not available in its interpreter.

Have fun exporing it. It does not have as extensive a set of libraries
as Racket does.

Someone has even managed to make a PC boot directly into the Gambit
interpreter, without an intervening OS.

-- hendrik

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>
> On Wed, Dec 30, 2020 at 2:10 PM Daniel Santos <dannysa...@gmail.com>
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> > Hi.
> >
> > I really want to know is if Racket compiles code directly into assembly?
> > Or does it do: Racket -> C -> Assembly ? Or something else ?
> >
> > Thank you
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