7 Jan
2012
7 Jan
'12
2:49 a.m.
From: Toby Thain: Thursday, January 05, 2012 8:14 PM
On 05/01/12 1:52 PM, Dave McGuire wrote:
I found him, and read a couple of his papers. There'd still be plenty to
do, just optimizing his stuff for a PDP-8.
I was trying to get a feel for what the capabilities of the result might be.
With 32Kw of memory, if you could get, say, 10K cons cells + atoms,
would that be an interesting system? Or would it be too tiny to be useful?
Also, how would the code density of the compiled Scheme compare to
native machine code?
That global optimizer is quite something. I want one of those!
Vince
On 01/05/2012 12:19 AM, Vincent Slyngstad wrote:
That sounds like a TANTALIZINGLY good idea!!
You'll probably want to look up the work of Marc Feeley, but I think it
would be more fun to do it from scratch... So,
who's gotten Scheme to run on a 4K PDP-8 with only an ASR-33 for
I/O?
Hmm...that sounds like a disturbingly good idea :-).