William Tracy <wtr### [at] calpolyedu> wrote:
> Nicolas Alvarez wrote:
> Have you heard of the Parrot bytecode[1]?
>
> I haven't, but it looks very interesting.

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.
In the hiatus, the python community came up with an innovative VM system
called PyPy and ruby increased its presence immensely.  And Lua too got a
lot of critical acclaim...

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.

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

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