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Previous: <a href="Writing-New-High_002dLevel-Languages.html" accesskey="p" rel="prev">Writing New High-Level Languages</a>, Up: <a href="Compiling-to-the-Virtual-Machine.html" accesskey="u" rel="up">Compiling to the Virtual Machine</a> [<a href="index.html#SEC_Contents" title="Table of contents" rel="contents">Contents</a>][<a href="Concept-Index.html" title="Index" rel="index">Index</a>]</p>
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<h4 class="subsection" id="Extending-the-Compiler-1"><span>9.4.7 Extending the Compiler<a class="copiable-link" href="#Extending-the-Compiler-1"> ¶</a></span></h4>
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<p>At this point we take a detour from the impersonal tone of the rest of
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the manual. Admit it: if you’ve read this far into the compiler
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internals manual, you are a junkie. Perhaps a course at your university
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left you unsated, or perhaps you’ve always harbored a desire to hack the
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holy of computer science holies: a compiler. Well you’re in good
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company, and in a good position. Guile’s compiler needs your help.
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<p>There are many possible avenues for improving Guile’s compiler.
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Probably the most important improvement, speed-wise, will be some form
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of optimized ahead-of-time native compilation with global register
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allocation. A first pass could simply extend the compiler to also emit
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machine code in addition to bytecode, pre-filling the corresponding JIT
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data structures referenced by the <code class="code">instrument-entry</code> bytecodes.
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See <a class="xref" href="Instrumentation-Instructions.html">Instrumentation Instructions</a>.
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<p>The compiler also needs help at the top end, adding new high-level
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compilers. We have JavaScript and Emacs Lisp mostly complete, but they
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could use some love; Lua would be nice as well, but whatever language it
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is that strikes your fancy would be welcome too.
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<p>Compilers are for hacking, not for admiring or for complaining about.
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Get to it!
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