[Mono-list] New mono community site
Miguel de Icaza
miguel@ximian.com
29 Mar 2003 12:13:32 -0500
Hello,
> Also, the approach describe there has some fundamental flaws.
> According to Gopal V, "It has a huge array which it uses like C uses RAM.
> Not pretty, fast, stable or useful", and according to Rhys Weatherly,
> "He's using a similar approach to egcs-jvm. See the pnet FAQ for a
> description of why this isn't a good way to port gcc to a stack machine",
> and they are both right.
Still a useful foundation, and good direction to bring plenty of
compilers over to .NET.
The important bit about this work is the fact that the register-based
RTL representation is used to map to CIL code. The other nuisances are
technical details.
In the "solvable" universe, not in the "impossible" universe.
Miguel.