From luke@nokomis.stat.umn.edu  Thu Nov  1 18:34:00 2001
From: luke@nokomis.stat.umn.edu (Luke Tierney)
Date: Thu, 1 Nov 2001 12:34:00 -0600
Subject: [Rd] migration to common runtime?
In-Reply-To: <3BE19117.8060802@StonyBrook.Edu>; from Timothy.Keitt@stonybrook.edu on Thu, Nov 01, 2001 at 01:14:47PM -0500
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On Thu, Nov 01, 2001 at 01:14:47PM -0500, Timothy H. Keitt wrote:
> I'm curious if any of the core R developers have considered the 
> possibility of hosting R (v2?) on the parrot common runtime environment. 
> Perl6 will generate byte-code for parrot, as will some future version of 
> python. I can imagine both drawbacks and advantages. Some advantages 
> would be fast byte-code execution and freely mixing perl, python and R 
> modules. Anyone looked into this?
> 
> Tim
> 

Not specifically parrot (not sure I'd want to bet the farm on that
until it's a bit more mature), but the byte code compilation ideas
some of us have been looking at would be designed with multiple
runtime targets in mind, so that may well be an option to consider.

luke

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[Rd] migration to common runtime?
Luke Tierney