Re: scratch/accurate-warning-pos: Solid progress: the branch now bootstraps.

[Alan Mackenzie]

Hello, Eli.

On Thu, Nov 29, 2018 at 13:13:17 +0200, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2018 10:54:34 +0000
> > From: Alan Mackenzie <address@hidden>
> > Cc: address@hidden, Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden>, address@hidden,
> >     address@hidden, address@hidden
> > 
> > Is the idea of the double interpreter still a live idea?

> If you are asking me, then I'm not sure what is the idea of the double
> interpreter.

I was really asking Paul, since it was originally his idea.

The "double interpreter" would be when we'd have one software instance
running at full speed, on which everything but byte compilation would be
done, and a second instance, using the ideas from branch
scratch/accurate-warning-pos, on which byte compilation would be done.

For some value of "instance".

-- 
Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).