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nemesis wrote:
> until you realize it's something, like Perl6 itself, that has been in the
> works for about 6 years, without ever managing to get out of beta status.

Ah. Okay, then. :-)

> I was thinking... the next Povray supposedly is going to be GPL.  Would you
> guys find it feasible to ship it together with GCC?  My point is:
> JIT-compilation is still a relatively new area and there aren't sufficient
> open-source implementations out there.  But traditional ahead-of-time
> compilation is easily achieved.  If it was possible for a povray SDL script
> to be compiled before running, performance wouldn't be a problem any more.

I really can't say how SDL would take to being compiled; I can say that
GCC is going to be a little bit of overkill for our needs. ;-)

Writing a new GCC frontend for SDL would be a big project in itself.

That said, GCC already supports a huge set of processor architectures. I
would not look forward to having to support a custom JIT compiler on
every conceivable processor, and I would not like to see POV stop
working on machines that are currently supported, either.

> then, I could even suggest getting a Scheme implementation like chicken to
> be a possible SDL frontend... :)

If you want to get yourself lynched, sure... ;-)

- --
William Tracy
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You know you've been raytracing too long when you consider 2D art that
of fools.
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