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From: Pietro Gagliardi <pietro10@mac.com>
Subject: Re: [9fans] pico
Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2008 19:30:56 -0500

Wow, that's very impressive!

	open: /tmp/something does not exist (2x)
	no image lerp
	no image doug

But you have a preview, which I was going to add soon.

I am sticking with my code interpreter because I know how to use one  
(I toiled over hoc. and fossil ate my code up last December) and it  
doesn't require hooking to a C compiler. I do like the preprocessor  
idea though.

On Jan 28, 2008, at 6:36 PM, Russ Cox wrote:

>> Byron Rakitzis (of posix rc fame) produced a version popi with the  
>> JIT
>> compiler, though sadly his where for cpus which are common cpus  
>> these days.
>
> Computers and compilers are fast enough now
> that you can get away with just feeding code
> into a C compiler instead of writing a full JIT.
> And there's no porting to do!
>
> I just put a pico on sources that does this - 738 lines,
> not many of which are the "JIT".
>
> 9fs sources
> cd /n/sources/contrib/rsc/pico
> mk demo
>
> Russ
>