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How the Chicken Scheme compiler works

See Felix's explanations.

By johnwcowan at 2007-06-03 06:41 | LtU Forum | previous forum topic | next forum topic | other blogs | 10346 reads

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Great article, thanks for

Great article, thanks for sharing that.

By cdiggins at Mon, 2007-06-04 05:35 | login or register to post comments

Thanks.

Nice idea to use the C's stack as a GC heap in order to enable tail calls.

I have seen that lots of languages use C as the back-end, but C has some limitations. I wonder what changes C must have in order to be used effectively as a back-end language (if any).

By Achilleas Margaritis at Mon, 2007-06-04 12:25 | login or register to post comments

C--

C-- may be a place to start looking.

By Derek Elkins at Mon, 2007-06-04 12:45 | login or register to post comments

Thank you.

It seems very interesting. Off to studying it...

By Achilleas Margaritis at Mon, 2007-06-04 16:02 | login or register to post comments