From sources-request at octave dot org Fri Jun 25 03:46:20 2004
Subject: Re: Octave classes tutorial
From: Jens Ruecknagel <Jens dot Ruecknagel at stud dot tu-ilmenau dot de>
To: Ganesh Bikshandi <ganeshb at gmail dot com>
CC: sources at octave dot org
Date: Fri, 25 Jun 2004 10:45:07 +0200

Hi Ganesh,

I am writing a "type deducing compiler" for octave right now - for my 
masters degree.

I wrote a simple compiler for octave as a student research project.
For this I wrote a doku on the internals of the interpreter. Check out 
www.tu-ilmenau.de/~rueckn.

Did you read the paper on majic - a matlab just in time compiler. I can 
send it to you if you don't jet have it. Majic is the basis of Matlabs 
current just in time compiler.

Maybe one day Octave is based on a just in time compiler, not an 
interpreter. But till then its a long way.

What exactly are you planing to do. How are you planing it to do?
What experiences do you have in compiler building?

You can use my old compiler - or the way it interacts with octave - as a 
start. Actually I got this part of the compiler from The Octave 
community, too.


Feel free to contact me.

Jens Ruecknagel
Ilmenau, Germany

Ganesh Bikshandi wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I am new to octave. I am planning to write a very simple JIT for
> octave for my research. I have already downloaded and installed the
> source code. What is the best way to hack the source code? I got a
> Doxygen link from a mail group posting, but it seems to be not
> updated. Any help in this regard would be appreciated.
> 
> Ganesh
> 
>