Re: Re: Rep:Re: [f-cpu] new langage ?

[djrom <pash.cracken@free.fr>]

>On Fri, Apr 19, 2002 at 08:24:55AM +0000, Nicolas Boulay wrote:
>> New language of a higher level is really needed to really have a code
>> portability without the problem of performance.
>> 
>> BUT it's really hard to devellop a all new language ( or look at "D" ).
>> 
>> I personnaly like the way systemC work. It's only a "big" librairy for
>> C++. We just have to design a librairy that work well with SIMD. 
>> 
>> In c++, one librairy do such thing : STL. If we port STL (in asm) for
>> the fpu we could accelerate all soon written programme and future one. 
>> 
>> I think it's the better cost/benefit ratio.

>I really don't want to be tied to a single programming language. No
>matter what it's called or who invented it.

>In order to support arbitrary languages, we need a native code generator
>that transforms an intermediate code representation into F-CPU machine
>code, and maybe also performs machine-dependent optimizations. I suggest
>we concentrate on this piece and worry about the language-specific
>front-end (which generates the intermediate code) later.

>That is, we have two things to do:

>        - define an appropriate (universally usable) intermediate code
>        - write code that maps it to F-CPU instructions

you're totally right, I think.

-- 
 Michael "Tired" Riepe <Michael.Riepe@stud.uni-hannover.de>
 "All I wanna do is have a little fun before I die"
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