Re: [Tcl-gsoc] GSoC - The Student Application Period is Open ....

[Guilherme P. <gg...@gm...>]

2010/4/5 Andreas Kupries <and...@ac...>:
>
> Until This Friday, April 9.
>
> If you are a student (or know of one) which has a project for Tcl, please (tell
> them to) apply.
>
> While we have six confirmed mentors so far we have no student applications at
> all so far. Nada, zilch, nothing.
>
>

Hi there,

I'm considering sending a project for Tcl, but I'm still wondering if
it is interesting for the Tcl community so let me describe it here
quickly.

I sent a short email to Jeff Hobbs earlier this year telling I would
be working on a JIT compiler for the Tcl language for my monograph. Of
course I would like to propose a superb adaptive optimizing compiler,
with multiple levels of compilation and what not. But to get there it
is necessary to have completed another steps, like a machine code
generator that would do such task based on the bytecodes generated by
the Tcl. I believe it would be a good idea to store this generated
code on disk, so it doesn't need to be regenerated if nothing changes
on the original source file, but I haven't yet though about the
details of reutilizing it.

To keep it short, my idea for a gsoc project would involve creating a
machine code generator based on Tcl bytecodes so in future projects it
would be possible to do the other tasks related to a good JIT compiler
like: select what to compile (a tracing JIT could be a good idea),
when to compile, recompile, deoptimize, and etc..

What do you think ? Stop it and go use LLVM or something else ?

Regards,

-- 
-- Guilherme H. Polo Goncalves