RE: [iiitmk-wetec-group] byte code for scheme ???

[Nitesh]

Hi ganga,
as far my knowledge is concerned scheme generates platform dependent codes as it doesnt work on virtual machine as java does..as byte codes i.e. Machine indepent..are basically JVM dependent and use to perform differently on various versions of JVMs.

regards
Nitesh.

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Subject: [iiitmk-wetec-group] any byte code for scheme ???
From: "gangadhar chalapaka" <ganga...@gmail.com>
Date: 29/09/2008 7:40 am

Hi all when i am programming with scheme

I suddenly got a very big confusion...

Languages like Java will generate a architecture independent files or byte
codes (class files )

(Of course C also generates a object file but its dependant on which
platform it was compiled).

Any intermediate class or independent code generation in scheme. (at
least dependant)

if yes:

what's the form of the file and how to use those files across platforms.

Can any one help me from getting out of this...

am i going in a wrong way of understanding the semantics of the language.

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Regards,
Gangadhar Chalapaka
pdgit-07
iiitmk.

[Venkatesh Choppella]

Hi Nitesh,

Scheme per se does not have a standardized byte code representation.
(I consider this a major weakness of scheme.) However, that doesn't
mean that Scheme can't be compiled. There are compilers for Scheme,
but these usually generate native code. However, there is at least
one Scheme I've come across that generates Java Byte code (I think the
scheme is called SISC).

Best Wishes.
- venkatesh

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