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18:22:57
Krystof
|3b|: are you up for trying to make an sb-nibbles contrib and making nibbles a thin wrapper on sbcl? (I think that you mentioned that after the breakage last month?)
18:26:55
_death
well, I'm assuming nibbles defines vops for certain operations that could maybe be put into a contrib
18:27:52
_death
so the contrib could be something nibbles uses, but that does not cover all of nibbles
18:46:28
_death
so at first I considered maybe an assembler contrib (that won't change very release).. but that seems overkill
19:55:57
Krystof
if someone wants to define a clearer, more supportable interface that meets all of nibbles' low-level needs, great!
19:57:11
Krystof
in full worse-is-better spirit, though, I'll be happy with something that helps us break less of the world every month, even if it's not the perfect interface
19:59:44
Krystof
the fact that we change assembler internals to make things clearer strongly suggests that we haven't got it right yet
20:05:38
_death
yeah, and if it's not for a particular platform, it can be a major undertaking that may not succeed anyway.. but if nibbles needs some way to remove bounds checking and basic fetch/store that may be useful for other things
20:09:02
_death
just thinking aloud (sorry if it's noise, coming from someone who is not an sbcl dev)
21:11:12
stassats
not breaking existing third party tools would take probably as much, or less, effort as creating a new contrib
23:43:14
|3b|
Krystof: possibly, though i don't know sbcl internals so it would mostly just be "copy the VOPs out of nibbles". it also might take a while since i have a few other projects ahead of it :/