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This is an attempt to revive the Guile-VM project by Keisuke Nishida
written back in the years 2000 and 2001. Below are a few pointers to
relevant threads on Guile's development mailing list.
Enjoy!
Ludovic Court�s <ludovic.courtes@laas.fr>, Apr. 2005.
Pointers
--------
Status of the last release, 0.5
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guile-devel/2001-04/msg00266.html
The very first release, 0.0
http://sources.redhat.com/ml/guile/2000-07/msg00418.html
Simple benchmark
http://sources.redhat.com/ml/guile/2000-07/msg00425.html
Performance, portability, GNU Lightning
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guile-devel/2001-03/msg00132.html
Playing with GNU Lightning
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guile-devel/2001-03/msg00185.html
On things left to be done
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guile-devel/2001-03/msg00146.html
---8<--- Original README below. -----------------------------------------
Installation
------------
1. Install the latest Guile from CVS.
2. Install Guile VM:
% configure
% make install
% ln -s module/{guile,system,language} /usr/local/share/guile/
3. Add the following lines to your ~/.guile:
(use-modules (system vm core)
(cond ((string=? (car (command-line)) "guile-vm")
(use-modules (system repl repl))
(start-repl 'scheme)
(quit)))
Example Session
---------------
% guile-vm
Guile Scheme interpreter 0.5 on Guile 1.4.1
Copyright (C) 2001 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
Enter `,help' for help.
scheme@guile-user> (+ 1 2)
3
scheme@guile-user> ,c -c (+ 1 2) ;; Compile into GLIL
(@asm (0 1 0 0)
(module-ref #f +)
(const 1)
(const 2)
(tail-call 2))
scheme@guile-user> ,c (+ 1 2) ;; Compile into object code
Disassembly of #<objcode 403c5fb0>:
nlocs = 0 nexts = 0
0 link "+" ;; (+ . ???)
3 variable-ref
4 make-int8:1 ;; 1
5 make-int8 2 ;; 2
7 tail-call 2
scheme@guile-user> (define (add x y) (+ x y))
scheme@guile-user> (add 1 2)
3
scheme@guile-user> ,x add ;; Disassemble
Disassembly of #<program add>:
nargs = 2 nrest = 0 nlocs = 0 nexts = 0
Bytecode:
0 object-ref 0 ;; (+ . #<primitive-procedure +>)
2 variable-ref
3 local-ref 0
5 local-ref 1
7 tail-call 2
Objects:
0 (+ . #<primitive-procedure +>)
scheme@guile-user>
Compile Modules
---------------
Use `guilec' to compile your modules:
% cat fib.scm
(define-module (fib) :export (fib))
(define (fib n) (if (< n 2) 1 (+ (fib (- n 1)) (fib (- n 2)))))
% guilec fib.scm
Wrote fib.go
% guile
guile> (use-modules (fib))
guile> (fib 8)
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