Re: [q-lang-users] Speeding up Q

[Eddie R. <er...@bm...>]

I'm looking forward to Pure. Since I have a new 64bit machine and the
amount of work (Institutional Research stuff) has picked up, I've
abandoned Q temporarily. 

One question:
How easy will it be to port the libraries to Pure?

Eddie

On Mon, 2008-03-31 at 13:13 +0200, Albert Graef wrote:
> Dr Libor Spacek wrote:
> > In my view it should be a high priority getting Q to tun faster in order to gain the user base that it deserves.
> 
> Did you read my mind? ;-)
> 
> Actually, being on vacation right now, I started playing around with
> LLVM. In the beginning that was just for fun, but then I began writing a
> "tiny demo interpreter" to see how well it works out. Well, actually
> it's not quite so tiny any more, after hacking away on it for two weeks,
> in some ways it's already much better than Q, with a much cleaner
> syntax, a more minimalistic and dynamic design, real closures (local
> functions, yay!) and a few other goodies.
> 
> The interpreter environment including parser and abstract term rewriting
> code generator is already working and I'm currently doing the final
> touches on the TR -> LLVM JIT code translator. I'm not ready to unveil
> it just yet, but I'll follow up as soon as I have something that can at
> least evaluate 1+1 => 2. :)
> 
> The language and interpreter are codenamed "Pure" a.k.a. the "Pure
> Universal Rewriting Engine", and I do have a preliminary manpage for it,
> which I'm attaching as a little teaser. ;-)
> 
> Cheers,
> Albert
> 
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