but it has its own virtual machine ... which could conceivably replace the LLVM ties ... ?
... unless that is inconceivable. i am glad that no one has rejected the idea out of hand; further proof that the Julia community is truly remarkable. On Tuesday, October 27, 2015 at 7:31:52 AM UTC-7, Jeff Bezanson wrote: > > Looks very cool! Of course I'd be interested in compiling julia's > frontend with something like this. We could badly use the extra speed. > I assume it supports macros, in which case I hope somebody makes a > library to undo the silly identifier renaming (e.g. defn -> define) so > it can run more scheme-like code. > > This looks like a much more serious project than femtolisp, but I > would like to dispute the claim that it is "lightweight". From the > readme, it depends on python/pypy, libffi, libedit, libuv, and > libboost, and is 10MB which makes it literally 100 times larger than > femtolisp. >
