On Sunday, 20 October 2013 10:56:46 UTC-7, Philip Herron wrote:
> Hey,
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> I've been working on GCCPY since roughly november 2009 at least in its
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> concept. It was announced as a Gsoc 2010 project and also a Gsoc 2011
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> project. I was mentored by Ian Taylor who has been an extremely big
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> influence on my software development carrer.
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> Gccpy is an Ahead of time implementation of Python ontop of GCC. So it
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> works as you would expect with a traditional compiler such as GCC to
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> compile C code. Or G++ to compile C++ etc.
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> Whats interesting and deserves a significant mention is my work is
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> heavily inspired by Paul Biggar's phd thesis on optimizing dynamic
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> languages and his work on PHC a ahead of time php compiler. I've had
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> so many ups and down in this project and i need to thank Andi Hellmund
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> for his contributions to the project.
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> http://paulbiggar.com/research/#phd-dissertation
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> The project has taken so many years as an in my spare time project to
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> get to this point. I for example its taken me so long simply to
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> understand a stabilise the core fundamentals for the compiler and how
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> it could all work.
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> The release can be found here. I will probably rename the tag to the
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> milestone (lucy) later on.
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> https://github.com/redbrain/gccpy/releases/tag/v0.1-24
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> (Lucy is our dog btw, German Shepard (6 years young) loves to lick
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> your face off :) )
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> Documentation can be found http://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/PythonFrontEnd.
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> (Although this is sparse partialy on purpose since i do not wan't
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> people thinking this is by any means ready to compile real python
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> applications)
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> I've found some good success with this project in compiling python
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> though its largely unknown to the world simply because i am nervous of
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> the compiler and more specifically the python compiler world.
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> But at least to me there is at least to me an un-answered question in
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> current compiler implementations. AOT vs Jit.
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> Is a jit implementation of a language (not just python) better than
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> traditional ahead of time compilation.
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> What i can say is ahead of time at least strips out the crap needed
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> for the users code to be run. As in people are forgetting the basics
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> of how a computer works in my opinion when it comes to making code run
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> faster. Simply need to reduce the number of instructions that need to
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> be executed in order to preform what needs to be done. Its not about
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> Jit and bla bla keyword llvm keyword instruction scheduling keyword
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> bla.
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> I could go into the arguments but i feel i should let the project
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> speak for itself its very immature so you really cant compare it to
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> anything like it but it does compile little bits and bobs fairly well
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> but there is much more work needed.
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> There is nothing at steak, its simply an idea provoked from a great
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> phd thesis and i want to see how it would work out. I don't get funded
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> of paid. I love working on compilers and languages but i don't have a
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> day job doing it so its my little pet to open source i believe its at
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> least worth some research.
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> I would really like to hear the feedback good and bad. I can't
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> describe how much work i've put into this and how much persistence
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> I've had to have in light of recent reddit threads talking about my
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> project.
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> I have so many people to thank to get to this point! Namely Ian
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> Taylor, Paul Biggar, Andi Hellmund, Cyril Roelandt Robert Bradshaw,
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> PyBelfast, and the Linux Outlaws community. I really couldn't have got
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> to this point in my life without the help of these people!
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> Thanks!
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> --Phil
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