Implementing Idio

Implementing something as complex as Idio involves a lot of subsystems and the description of any one may necessarily involve the understanding of another. There’s no easy way to describe the “finished product” (I use both words loosely) without accepting that, as a reader, you will have to take some things as read and perhaps come back again to some sections.

Books such as LiSP ([Que94]) describe multiple complete implementations gradually upping the complexity with each one in turn. The repetitive nature is the classic methodology to pick up the various techniques.

This treatise isn’t pedagogical in that sense but simply dives straight in.

• Implementation Notes
  • Compiling
  • Debugging
• Idio Style
  • Names
  • Style
  • Error Messages
  • Code Coverage
  • Version Numbers
• The Virtual Machine
  • Variable Lookups
  • Register Machine
  • Debugging
• The Reader
  • Reading
  • Reading Expressions
  • Reader Operations
• The Evaluator
  • Evaluating
  • Evaluating Functions
  • Expansion
• Garbage Collection
  • Introduction
• The Idio Allocator
  • Variations
  • Design
  • Implementation
• The Idio GC
  • Caveats
  • The GC
  • Scale
• Simple Types
  • Numbers and Constants
  • Characters and Strings
  • Unicode Summary Information
  • Symbols and Keywords
  • Bignums
  • Handles
  • Bitsets
  • Functions
  • C Types
• Compound Types
  • Pairs and Lists
  • Arrays
  • Hash Tables
  • Structures
  • Operators
• Release 0.1
  • vtables
• Release 0.2
  • CLOS
  • Idio Object System
  • Efficient Mapping
  • Function Names
  • Lambda Lifting
• Release 0.3
  • Pre-Compilation I
  • RFC 6234
• Shell
  • Shell Variables
  • Shell Functions
  • Job Control
  • Pipelines and I/O Redirection
  • Asynchronous Commands
  • Process Substitution
  • Logical Expressions
  • libc
• Advanced
  • Setters
  • C API
  • Continuations and Escapes
• Extensions
  • Extension Implementation
  • JSON5

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