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authorAndy Wingo <wingo@pobox.com>2017-05-22 12:55:04 +0200
committerAndy Wingo <wingo@pobox.com>2017-05-22 12:55:04 +0200
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-This is an attempt to revive the Guile-VM project by Keisuke Nishida
-written back in the years 2000 and 2001. Below are a few pointers to
-relevant threads on Guile's development mailing list.
-
-Enjoy!
-
-Ludovic Courtès <ludovic.courtes@laas.fr>, Apr. 2005.
-
-
-Pointers
---------
-
-Status of the last release, 0.5
- http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guile-devel/2001-04/msg00266.html
-
-The very first release, 0.0
- http://sources.redhat.com/ml/guile/2000-07/msg00418.html
-
-Simple benchmark
- http://sources.redhat.com/ml/guile/2000-07/msg00425.html
-
-Performance, portability, GNU Lightning
- http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guile-devel/2001-03/msg00132.html
-
-Playing with GNU Lightning
- http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guile-devel/2001-03/msg00185.html
-
-On things left to be done
- http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guile-devel/2001-03/msg00146.html
-
-
----8<--- Original README below. -----------------------------------------
-
-Installation
-------------
-
-1. Install the latest Guile from CVS.
-
-2. Install Guile VM:
-
- % configure
- % make install
- % ln -s module/{guile,system,language} /usr/local/share/guile/
-
-3. Add the following lines to your ~/.guile:
-
- (use-modules (system vm core)
-
- (cond ((string=? (car (command-line)) "guile-vm")
- (use-modules (system repl repl))
- (start-repl 'scheme)
- (quit)))
-
-Example Session
----------------
-
- % guile-vm
- Guile Scheme interpreter 0.5 on Guile 1.4.1
- Copyright (C) 2001 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
-
- Enter `,help' for help.
- scheme@guile-user> (+ 1 2)
- 3
- scheme@guile-user> ,c -c (+ 1 2) ;; Compile into GLIL
- (@asm (0 1 0 0)
- (module-ref #f +)
- (const 1)
- (const 2)
- (tail-call 2))
- scheme@guile-user> ,c (+ 1 2) ;; Compile into object code
- Disassembly of #<objcode 403c5fb0>:
-
- nlocs = 0 nexts = 0
-
- 0 link "+" ;; (+ . ???)
- 3 variable-ref
- 4 make-int8:1 ;; 1
- 5 make-int8 2 ;; 2
- 7 tail-call 2
-
- scheme@guile-user> (define (add x y) (+ x y))
- scheme@guile-user> (add 1 2)
- 3
- scheme@guile-user> ,x add ;; Disassemble
- Disassembly of #<program add>:
-
- nargs = 2 nrest = 0 nlocs = 0 nexts = 0
-
- Bytecode:
-
- 0 object-ref 0 ;; (+ . #<primitive-procedure +>)
- 2 variable-ref
- 3 local-ref 0
- 5 local-ref 1
- 7 tail-call 2
-
- Objects:
-
- 0 (+ . #<primitive-procedure +>)
-
- scheme@guile-user>
-
-Compile Modules
----------------
-
-Use `guilec' to compile your modules:
-
- % cat fib.scm
- (define-module (fib) :export (fib))
- (define (fib n) (if (< n 2) 1 (+ (fib (- n 1)) (fib (- n 2)))))
-
- % guilec fib.scm
- Wrote fib.go
- % guile
- guile> (use-modules (fib))
- guile> (fib 8)
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