[Gd-hackers] Open Dylan migration plan

[Gabor Greif]

Am Mittwoch, 03.11.04, um 21:22 Uhr (Europe/Berlin) schrieb Carl Gay:

> It sounds like a good long-term goal to me.
>
> Personally I would prefer to see either gd or fd turn into a
> mature/reliable system on Linux before launching into a big combined
> project.  I would define mature/reliable loosely as having all the
> basic OS/networking libs in place, being easy to build, not crashing
> due to GC or threading bugs, and being easy to build.  I worry that
> trying to combine them first will just delay that.  (Reading between
> the lines: i want to hack Koala on Linux.)
>
> CDAN is a great idea that seems like it could be done regardless of
> whether we have combined compilers.
>
> One question: would the two compilers share the same runtime code?

No. They use radically different runtimes (dylan lib). The libraries
on top of _that_ could be merged in the middle term.

So I can only second the plan to push back the merging some time
and make it a long-term goal.

Also, I do not think we can easily swap optimization passes between the 
compilers at the moment. So while I regard a common build enviroment as
a noble goal, I would say it is not so urgent as opposed to getting FD 
out
the door.

	Gabor


>
> -Carl
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