Re: Supercompiled Perl

 Dear colleagues,

Valentin Turchin wrote:
> You can use supercompilation with Perl in two ways.
> (1) Write an interpreter of Perl in Refal and use it with the existing supercompiler SCP4
> (written by myself and Andrei Nemytykh). As I said above, the goal is double: speed-up
> and possible invention of new ways of programming in Perl -- with heavy interpretation.
> (2) Write a new supercompiler in the language of your choice. The same goals.
> 
> Andrei Klimov and Andrei Nemytykh may write you with more detail.

 In my opinion, both possibilities can be useful. 
 Sure, the second way requires much more attention. 
 
 I remember an idea ( by Sergei Romanenko ). He suggests
 to use supercompiler together with a meta-program. The meta-program
 has to be a part of a concrete operating system. It is a dispatcher 
 of supercompilation. 
 The program has to observe the behavior of users:
  - how often a concrete Perl-program is used ?
  - maybe, some arguments of a program have a constant intrivial 
    properties, so its specialized version makes sense ?
  - maybe, something else ...

 If the meta-program decides to transform a Perl-program, then it does 
 that and creates a new residual version. After that any call to 
 the original Perl-program ( within the chosen context ) is replaced
 with the residual version automatically.

Sincerely,
Andrei Nemytykh.