Re: Supercompiled Perl

I might be off base here, but aren't you describing
caching results of a program by your "Meta-Program"??? 
I do this with perl scripts all the time .

In fact CGI::Cache in CPAN is pretty good and there are others
that are also good for various situations.


"Andrei P. Nemytykh" wrote:
> 
>  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.
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> 
>  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.