Qhasm: tools to help write high-speed software

Re:Qhasm: tools to help write high-speed software by yorwba on Saturday May 20, 2017 @07:50AM (#14381983)

> WARNING WARNING WARNING: qhasm is in prototype form. The existing qhasm tools and interfaces have produced high-speed professional-quality software for several applications, but they are not themselves professional-quality tools; they have many known deficiencies and many sharp corners. Each of the qhasm tools has at least one complete rewrite planned. The .q language is not stable; if you write .q files then you should plan on having to modify them extensively for future qhasm releases. The machine-description language has a stable structure but is still undergoing tweaks; I can incorporate machine descriptions into qhasm and keep them up to date, but I won't promise that non-incorporated descriptions will continue to work. The prototypes of qhasm's cycle counter, range analyzer, and scheduler are several generations behind the current .q language and, as a practical matter, aren't usable right now.

Seems like quite a lot would need to be done, even if it works to some degree. Have you tried it? (I haven't.)

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Re:Qhasm: tools to help write high-speed software by super-io on Saturday May 20, 2017 @01:38PM (#14383441)

> Not scared? Okay. Here's how to download...

I have had a great user experience with all his other software except one[1]. Thus I was not scared. High learning curve, but high reward.

1. A FORTH he wrote for IOCCC. Problems compiling probably due to my own stupidity.

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