On 05-03-2009, Joel Reymont <joelr1@gmail.com> wrote:
> I would like to compile trading systems written in a pascal-like  
> programming language to OCaml AST at runtime, convert it to machine  
> code and use it from the same running
> OCaml program (natdynlink?).
>
> Is it possible to do this without having gcc installed?
>
> The code I'm generating will need to be iterate over an array of
> doubles or be called from within the loop on every array element. It
> will also use a bunch of helper functions from my existing library.
>
> If I generate the code using LLVM then I'll need to write my helper
> functions in C and the only value I get from OCaml would be the
> parsing. If I write the helper functions in OCaml then I believe my
> loop will be slow as hell due to all the wrapping and unwrapping of
> OCaml values.
>
> Any suggestions?

Why not using the LLVM OCaml binding? It is directly shipped with LLVM. 
So you can write the entire generator in OCaml...

Regards,
Sylvain Le Gall