Native Factor progress

Slava Pestov — 2004-07-12 06:40:51

Hi everybody,



I've done a lot of work on the C port of Factor in the last few days. 

Notable achievements:



- The VM is now 16kb when compiled -- the library image is 71kb.

- Console I/O.

- There is a now simple parser, written in Factor itself.

- The "see" word to view in-memory word definitions now works.

- The ".s" word to inspect stack contents now works.

- There is a garbage collector -- it is a stop and copy collector, using 

Cheney's algorithm.



You can get the latest code from factor.sourceforge.net.



Now my plans are:



- Proper error handling, catch/throw. This will be added to the Java 

Factor as well.

- File and network I/O.

- Getting the inspector to run.

- Getting the HTTPD to run.

- Getting the image cross-compiler to run.

- Floating point, ratio, bignum and complex math.

- Asynchronous I/O.



Slava