On 11 Sep 2006, at 23:30, Scott Dial wrote:

Michael Hudson wrote:

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Armin Rigo <arigo@tunes.org> writes:

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Runtime Synthesis of High-Performance Code from Scripting Languages Christopher Mueller and Andrew Lumsdaine

This is (a) interesting (b) potentially stealable :-) and (c) looks frighteningly like translator/asm/ppcgen ... I don't know whether it's more surprising that they don't seem to know what I did or that I didn't know about that :-)

(a) yes, (b) not at the moment (restrictive license)

Yes, I saw that, but I get the impression that we could probably beg :)

(c) hmm..

And as for not being aware of it, well, AFAICT, this is very recently demonstrated at SciPy 2006 (Aug 17th), and I think you can be forgiven for not having heard of it before because I don't think anyone else had either.

Oh right. Then they should at least have heard of PPY: http:// www.python.net/crew/mwh/hacks/PPY.html It would at least have saved some time typing numbers out of the back of the PPC architecture manual...

You can look at it all here: http://www.osl.iu.edu/~chemuell/new/ sp.php

Yeah, it was that that finally convinced me that it _wasn't_ based on my code :-) It also look like it might be easier to convert into RPython than my code.

I haven't met Chris, but I feel like this is one of those "small world" moments since he literally works in the same building as me.

Heh :) Cheers, mwh