In article ... ray@philmtl.philips.ca (Ray Dunn) writes:
Having been hacking in 'C' for the last ..cough.. years I can't understand
why there wasn't a 'C' implementation of POP done a long time ago.
I hope the work on Pepper is being done in a portable fashion.
The present (bootstrap) implementation is done by via a byte-coded
interpreter written in ANSI C, and appears to run on an Arc under
RISC OS and HP9000/300s, /400s, and 7|8-00's with only minor tweaks
to the configuration file. Steve and I are occasionally working on
a Mac port, and if someone was really convincing reason I'd look at
doing it on a PC.
Native-code compilers are another matter; I intend to do an Arc one,
but the other platforms, well, SOP.
[Performance of the interpreter isn't too hot, but there's plenty of
room for improvement yet.]
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