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The VM makes it easy to make continuation operations trivial, yes, but at the cost of normal code running slower and having to re-implement lots of things. I th

The VM makes it easy to make continuation operations trivial, yes, but at the cost of normal code running slower and having to re-implement lots of things. I think both ideas have potential, and I need to implement both and see which one wins out. I'm not sure how well the JIT works with CPS-ed code. There's a Firefox addon to inspect the JIT which we could use to find out (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/jit-inspector/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/jit-inspector...). It's possible we could optimize loops in a way that is more JIT-friendly. More research is needed!

ericbb 14y ago
> More research is needed! Agreed. And I'm looking forward to more posts on Outlet! I have a project that's similar in that it's a Lisp dialect designed to match my own tastes and to eventually run on a variety of platforms. So far, I've had variants of it running on JavaScript and Go. It's in a rough state at the moment but you can see it here: https://github.com/ebb/lumgua https://github.com/ebb/lumgua and another, rather different incarnation here: http://norstrulde.org/ilge10/ http://norstrulde.org/ilge10/ (with some more description here: http://norstrulde.org/ilge10/about.html http://norstrulde.org/ilge10/about.html)