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The main repo for the Medley Interlisp project. Wiki, Issues are here. Other repositories include maiko (the VM implementation) and Interlisp.github.io (web site sources)
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Document maiko virtual machine: opcodes, subrs, memory model, architecture, compiler considerations, etc #28

Open masinter opened 4 years ago

masinter commented 4 years ago

@nbriggs :

the whole "makeright ..." build process is a bit of a mess ...

To my mind the real problems are mostly issues with factoring the OS dependencies properly in the code (is it or , do you need or <sys/time.h> or both? Do we need ? Do we have ? Do we depend in ? Do we need to use fcntl() or ioctl() to speed up the I/O for X displays? etc. etc. etc.) If someone were, for example, trying to port the code to an ARM processor on e.g. a Raspberry Pi, what would they need to change in the configuration? What if it were WebAsm? What about Apple Silicon? What if we were trying to rebuild Medley 2.0 instead of 3.5? It's not well documented!

waywardmonkeys commented 3 years ago

A lot of the above concerns have been evolving in the last couple of days.

masinter commented 2 years ago

first step is to gather the documentation we have: comments in code, tedit files, old emails then we can discover the gaps

masinter commented 2 years ago

There are some documents now in the repo under docs/internal/opcodes.tedit => medley-docs-internal-opcodes.pdf in the Medley-PDFs on the shared Internet google drive.

https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/lispcore/859A698F-30F6-4957-BB30-61C06E70A402%40gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer

https://gist.github.com/masinter/0c62f36fcb3750b7c108a23c61ad62c9