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Chris Cason <del### [at] deletethistoo povray org> wrote:
> I'd already raised the issue that I felt that a byte-coded (or JIT'd) back-
> end to any SDL was necessary for speed. If this was exposed and formally
> documented then, firstly, more or less any language could be used with it
> (assuming someone wants to write the translator), and secondly, portability
> is at least vaguely possible by providing a reverse-compiler that outputs
> some form of 'standard' SDL (whatever we end up calling 'standard' is up to
> question of course).
Maybe we need something more POV-Ray specific, but I thought I should bring
this up anyway... Have you heard of the Parrot bytecode[1]?
Languages already supported (even if they are incomplete and experimental):
Perl 6, APL, BASIC, Befunge, Brainfuck, Cola, Forth, Jako, Lisp, m4,
Miniperl, Parakeet, OpenComal, PHP, Plot, Pheme, Punie, Python, Ruby,
Scheme, Span, Tcl (aka partcl), URM, YAL, and Zork Z-code.
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parrot_virtual_machine
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