Functions missing from the Mal core:
- eval (requires JIT compiling?)
Compiler features:
- memory structure: since elementarray and bytearray sizes are known during allocation, we can allocate one continuous space for header + data (instead of allocating the data array separately).
- better error detection during compilation (for example, calling
+with non-integer arguments, or wrong number of arguments) - add debugging symbols (-g)
- hide malc's internal functions (those defined in nativefuncs.mal) so they
won't be visible from the user's Mal program (but will be visible to
runtime-core-funcs.mal)
Performance:
- don't compile the "standard library" every time. Compile
nativefuncs.malinto an object file or archive once, and just link it to any Mal program that is compiled. - hash tables are linear lists with O(n) lookup/add/remove complexity.
Tests:
- automatically convert test suites from the Mal project to executable testable programs compiled by malc