slate gui slowness needs fixing before proceeding

[Matt Revelle]

Others may have seen this, but a HLVM project ( http://hlvm.org/ ) was
started recently.  Its goal is to provide a general bridge between
dynamic languages and the LLVM.

It doesn't have much to offer Slate yet, but from the site HVLM will
be "[a] complete language designer's toolkit for creating new
programming languages easily. To define a new language, language
designers simply write a plugin that describes the language to HLVM
and how to translate the grammar productions into HLVM's comprehensive
Abstract Syntax Tree (AST). After that, HLVM handles all aspects of
code generation, bytecode storage, JIT execution or interpretation,
and native compilation."



On 6/16/06, David Gilmore <davgil at taosys.com> wrote:
>
> I do not propose the use of the Lisp VM as a replacement of the C-
> based VM, but it can be a useful test-bed for development of
> components which can then be integrated into the C VM.  It can also
> be useful for a project which integrates Slate and Lisp code.
>
> With the Lisp VM, the lisp language essentially becomes the
> "bytecode" for system, but this is something which is visual,
> tweakable, and debuggable.  After success with Lisp, different
> backends can be developed to produce Slate bytecodes compatible with
> the current C VM, as well as LLVM bytecodes which would utilize the
> LLVM engine to produce high-quality, optimized native-code.  These
> would not be dependent on the lisp environment.
>