[sldev] LLVM?

[SL - Farallon Greyskin]

One of the things I like about the idea of using mono is that there is the 
/possibility/ of being able to use a real programming language for 
"scripting" in SL. I have NO idea if LL ever plans to allow that, but I sure 
like that glimmer of hope that it provides...

LSLs current /insane/ limitations of language structure cause massive 
problems in trying to do anything complex. If scripts end up running 10-30x 
as fast (or more efficient) under mono then some REAL coding projects might 
actually be within the realm of possibility, but only if a real programming 
language is also allowed.

The lack of real data structures, synchronization and even the missing 
switch statement are so amazingly irritating to work around... My ghod my 
sim for a map structure!

So I would hope that any future work on replacing the scripting engine gives 
a real eye towards replacing it with something like a real programming 
language as well...

Farallon

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Argent Stonecutter" <secret.argent at gmail.com>
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Sent: Wednesday, October 31, 2007 8:49 AM
Subject: [sldev] LLVM?


>I wonder if the LLVM might not be a better way to handle future  scripting 
>needs than Mono. Modifying the existing LSL compiler to  generate LLVM code 
>wouldn't be hard at all: LSL is a stack oriented  language, and that's one 
>of the provided front ends.
>
> This wouldn't be a short term project, but it would be something to 
> consider for future implementations. LLVM isn't as mature as Mono,  but 
> it's also a lot smaller in scope and a lot of the scope of Mono  includes 
> a lot of stuff that you simply don't need in a simulator...  and it's 
> being used by a number of companies that are doing things  much more like 
> scripting a simulator than implementing a general  purpose OS. LLVM is a 
> "pluggable" compiler environment like Tcl is a  pluggable interpreter 
> environment.
>
> Personally, as a compiler guy, I find http://llvm.org/docs/ Stacker.html 
> quite exciting. You could possibly plug the LLVM basic  blocks directly 
> into indra.y and have it generate code directly.
>
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