OpenEuphoria

Compiler (oh no not again)

• Posted by Lmailles at AOL.COM Jul 28, 1998
• 595 views

DISCLAIMER: This subject has probably already been discussed a million times,
so anybody interested in a Euphoria please hold your fingers and check the
list archives for discussions and explanations.

One of the major downfalls of Euphoria is number-crunching, or rather lack of
it. This is really inevitable in an interpreted language, and the only way out
was either ASM or ****Rude language warning******* C/C++ ..... until now .....

Is there somebody out there who could write a compiler for Euphoria math and
logical operations and maybe for loops and convert them into ready-to-call
machine code subroutines ? For example, I might have an include file :

----------crunch.ec
function lots_of_maths(atom x)
        x=power(x,2)+6*x-3
        if x>=0 then
                return x+1
        else
                return x-1
        end if
end function
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The compiler would take this and produce crunch.e, an include file with the
same named function but ASM code instead of Euphoria. I think Pete might have
already done something similar, it would probably take Rob about half an hour.
Obviously it would only work on atomic mathematics, sequences are less in need
of it.

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Daniel Johnson
Les Mailles Technologies
"If you don't stand for God, you won't stand at all" -Isaiah