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diff --git a/lang/stalin/DESCR b/lang/stalin/DESCR new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..26a4b232376 --- /dev/null +++ b/lang/stalin/DESCR @@ -0,0 +1,18 @@ +Stalin is an aggressively optimizing whole-program compiler for Scheme +that does polyvariant interprocedural flow analysis, flow-directed +interprocedural escape analysis, flow-directed lightweight CPS +conversion, flow-directed lightweight closure conversion, +flow-directed interprocedural lifetime analysis, automatic in-lining, +unboxing, and flow-directed program-specific and +program-point-specific low-level representation selection and code +generation. + +Stalin is now self hosting (ie. can compile itself). The distributed +code is self-compiled. Scheme->C is no longer used or needed to build +Stalin. + +Stalin uses the Boehm conservative garbage collector and comes with a +foreign-procedure interface for Xlib and OpenGL, and a version of +QobiScheme, an extensive library of Scheme code. + +Stalin is now released under the GNU Public License, version 2. |