Re: Euphoria compiler? (Do'h!)
Woaaahh!
Sorry Robert, people.
I thought I was sending this post to Robert
personally.
Damned Topica :)
Sorry, I'm back on my well-earned vacation!
Bye!
Mike The Spike
--- Mike The Spike <mtsreborn at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Hi Robert!
>
>
> I was woundering just how hard it would be to
> translate to ASM instead of C.
> To be compiled/linked by NASM, wich can link to
> DOS32,
> Win32 and Linux image files.
>
> Allthough it would be a real unportable sollution,
> it
> might gain you some speed here and there.
>
> I'm saying this because the C code produced bythe
> translator maps very well to ASM code.
> With the gotos, and the runtime library.
>
> The runtime library is the real reason why I'm
> proposing this.
> Because it allready handles all of Euphoria's
> internals
> in C. All you should do is call the routines in the
> runtime library from an ASM file.
> I looked into it and it's very easy.
> Especially in NASM where you have macros that can
> handle anything.
> For example, you can use 'if/while/else' in your ASM
> code.
>
> All that would be different from the Eu To C
> translator would be the syntax.
>
> ASM is truly overrated when it comes to complexity.
> Generating machine code is a real pain, I admit, but
> generating ASM is not.
>
> The basic layout of a C program translated from
> Euphoria would remain intact, as it maps very well
> to
> ASM.
>
> In NASM you can define structures, arrays, etc.
> So the datatypes declared in the C sources can be
> mapped to ASM.
>
>
> Personally, I wouldn't do this project though.
> But that's because my main focus is portability, and
> it always will be.
> Yours might be Intel-based OSs, so you might
> consider
> doing this eventhough it's not portable.
>
> Myself, I would rather output code like the
> following
> from the translator to accieve the same speed gains
> (if any) in C portably without translating to ASM
> entirely;
> #ifdef MSVC
> __asm push eax, &var1;
> __asm add eax, &var2;
> #else
> var1+=var2;
> #endif
>
> But you might still want to do an Eu To ASM
> translator
> because of the shear ease of doing it thanks to the
> way the translator currently outputs C code.
>
> But then again, maybe Beta-1's speed gains over
> Alpha-3
> are large enough to not even touch ASM ;)
>
>
> Mike The Spike
> PS. I still think declaring atoms as floats would be
> a
> good optimisation to implement. :)
>
>
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