Re: [Sbcl-devel] Getting your feet wet with SBCL hacking

[Chaitanya G. <ma...@ch...>]

Chaitanya Gupta wrote:
> There's also the sbcl internals wiki: 
> http://sbcl-internals.cliki.net/index
>

> Red Daly wrote:
>> * Was the Internals wiki helpful for first-timers?  for me it gives a 
>> high-level understanding of what SBCL is up to, but it doesn't teach 
>> me function names or what files to seek out.


My bad. I see you already know about the internals wiki..

Chaitanya


>> * Are there good pet projects for beginners to work on?
>> * Does most development happen through the REPL on an active SBCL 
>> instance?  I can imagine there is a lot of restarting for some types 
>> of work.
>> * What's the best way you have found to search the mailing list to 
>> avoid repeating questions?
>>
>> Some of these questions may be dumb, so appologies galor.  It just 
>> seems like it will be fun to play around with SBCL every once in a 
>> while, but I don't know how to get started with this massive piece of 
>> code.
>>
>> Also there are some random questions I have about SBCL that have 
>> popped into my mind every now and again:
>>
>> * How ugly is the source compared to OpenMCL, a fast Scheme 
>> implementation, a commercial lisp implementation, and GCC?
>> * Has anyone attempted to port to Java bytecode or some other 
>> unconventional assembly-like language?
>> * Are there portions of the compilation process that are currently 
>> obviously suitable for optimization via machine learning algorithms?  
>> I do not mean really dreamy AI as in "hey computer, optimize my 
>> program for me," but more deciding which functions to inline or 
>> something.
>>
>> Thanks for any answers.  I know there are more SBCL would-be hackers 
>> like me that will benefit greatly from this thread.
>>
>> Red
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