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Re: performance for scientific computing
> You could not be more off-target :-)
> The Gwydion Project is consisting of two Dylan implementations:
>
> - Mindy (byte-code compiler & interpreter, written in C, slow execution,
no macros,
> not-too-close tracking of the language as defined in DRM)
> - d2c (full blown compiler, full macro system, close DRM compliance (and
improving rapidly)
> powerful optimizer, emits C code for gcc consumption, but other backends
possible).
>
> Mindy is basically only needed to bootstrap d2c from scratch.
>
> >
> > BTW, does anyone know why they did not write Gwydion Dylan in
Lisp/Scheme
> > instead of using a low-level language (C I think) ? These 3 languages
are
> > quite similar and the little differencies could have been soften with
> > macros. I probably miss some point.
> >
> > Sebastien
>
> Hope this helps,
>
> Gabor
Nice ! I read to fast the information about mindy and d2c and mix them :-)
I will try to implement the stuff I want to do in Dylan with the macro
language and compile it with d2c (but without debugginf facilities :-( ).
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