[lucy-issues] [jira] [Updated] (CLOWNFISH-25) Implement CFC as Clownfish project

["Nick Wellnhofer (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

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Nick Wellnhofer updated CLOWNFISH-25:
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    Priority: Minor  (was: Major)

> Implement CFC as Clownfish project
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>                 Key: CLOWNFISH-25
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CLOWNFISH-25
>             Project: Apache Lucy-Clownfish
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>          Components: Compiler
>            Reporter: Nick Wellnhofer
>            Priority: Minor
>
> I think it's really important to implement CFC as a Clownfish project as soon as possible. This has several benefits:
> * Increases productivity and performance.
> * Every additional Clownfish project helps with refinement of the runtime API.
> * Documentation can be easily generated.
> * Allows to share code between the runtime and compiler.
> If CFC depends on the runtime and the runtime needs CFC to compile, this creates a bootstrapping problem that can be resolved as follows:
> * Make the Clownfish runtime self-hosting.
> ** Don't create the CFC-generated files on every build.
> ** Add an initial version of the generated files to version control. This must de done separately for every host language.
> ** Only recreate these files on demand.
> ** {{cfish_platform.h}} is an exception. Provide a static version that includes {{charmony.h}} and uses the CHY macros directly.
> * Make the Clownfish runtime available to CFC.
> ** Generate Clownfish runtime headers and add them to CFC version control to make CFC self-hosting like the runtime.
> ** Link CFC against the Clownfish runtime.
> Then we could proceed and
> * Switch CFC over to Clownfish strings.
> ** Start with high-level functions like CFCUtil_write_file. Work downwards to lower-level functions.
> * Implement CFC classes as Clownfish classes. This can be done base class by base class.
> Working on the .cfh files of the compiler would look like this:
> * Keep a CFC binary from a previous build around.
> * Change .cfh files and rebuild the generated files using the old CFC binary.
> * Rebuild CFC.
> * Recreate the the generated files using the the freshly built CFC.
> * Check whether output is OK.
> * Commit changes to generated files.



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