Bones: A simple Scheme compiler for x86_64 systems

http://www.call-with-current-continuation.org/bones/

by kryptiskt • 12 years ago

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tzar• 12 years ago

This is from Felix Winkelmann, who created Chicken Scheme (http://www.call-cc.org). Bones generates assembly instead of C like Chicken, but the choices of intermediate language (CPS) and GC (Cheney) look to be the same.

jwr2• 12 years ago

Interesting that this should appear just as I was looking for a way to generate ARM assembly (small Cortex-M chips) using a Lisp variant. This isn't quite it, but it looks very interesting and is a step in the right direction.

matheusbn• 12 years ago

Same here. But I think this is not just a coincidence taking into count how popular ARM is today.

bunny351• 12 years ago

I'm actually planning to start an ARM port next. Considering that I'm rather inexperienced with that architecture, it may take a while, though. Any help would of course be appreciated...

jwr2• 12 years ago

I will take a very close look and help if I'm able to.

hetid• 12 years ago

Is there a Scheme / Racket compiler for the LLVM yet?

dbpokorny2• 12 years ago

There will likely not be one, at least in the short term, as there are plenty of scheme-to-C compilers out there.

mjn• 12 years ago

The "suggestions for projects" section of the manual (section 15) mentions this as a possible future extension:

Other backends, say, asm.js or LLVM. This can be quite a challenge, as these languages do not support jumps to arbitrary locations.

dbpokorny2• 12 years ago

Top Google result for Felix: http://spin.atomicobject.com/2013/05/02/chicken-scheme-part-...

stewbrew• 12 years ago

But why? Is the work on chicken scheme finished? Does it have dead-simple ffi? Does is run on android? Does spock actually work? What's the actual advantage of bones over chicken?

Bones: A simple Scheme compiler for x86_64 systems

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