RuScript

Build

Tool-chain dependencies: Rust (nightly), Haskell (8.01)

1. git submodule update to fetch rust-gc dev source
2. runghc Test.hs to run unit tests

To build the rvm and rusc separately:

1. rvm: cd rvm; cargo build
2. rusc: cd rusc; stack build

Features

• Safe runtime written in Rust with garbage collection
• Lightweight stack-based bytecode
• High-level object-oriented language
• Static checking module

Design

Please refer to spec

TODOs

• .rusi Interface parser
  • Note #1: Whether or not to attach a self to each method signature
  • Note #2: Separate compilation and selective exports require more engineering, of which I have little experience in
• Concurrent primitives
  • Note #1: We need to construct runners inside the interpreters, and every runner is contained in a thread and responsible for a user-thread
  • Note #2: To share the data between threads, we need a concurrent GC system, which we don't really have now.
• Formal Specification Revision based on Coq

Performance Issue

The current performance revealed by benchmarking the sum.rus is very poor, taking as much as 100 times longer than a naïve Python implementation.

Currently, the source of latency can be contributed to three aspects:

1. GC
2. Interpreter
3. Compiler

Actually, by increasing the instruction set, we can eliminate many "stupid" instruction sequence, such as POP then PUSH, which is equivalent to a write stack-top to local var without popping out.