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_posts/2018-04-09-a-dynamic-hello-world.md

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+---
+layout: news
+author: Torsten
+---
+
+Now that i *have* had time to write some more code (250 commits last month), here is
+the good news:
+
+## Sending is done
+
+A dynamic language like ruby really has at it's heart the dynamic method resolution. Without
+that we'd be writing C++. Not much can be done in ruby without looking up methods.
+
+Yet all this time i have been running circles around this mother of a problem, because
+(after all) it is a BIG one. It must be the one single most important reason why dynamic
+languages are interpreted and not compiled.
+
+## A brief recap
+
+Last year already i started on a rewrite. After hitting this exact same wall for the fourth
+time. I put in some more Layers, the way a good programmer fixes any daunting problem.
+
+The [Readme](https://github.com/ruby-x/rubyx) has quite a good summary on the new layers,
+and off course i'll update the architecture soon. But in case you didn't click, here is the
+very very short summary:
+
+
+- Vool is a Virtual Object Oriented Language. Virtual in that is has no own syntax. But
+  it has semantics, and those are substantially simpler than ruby. Vool is Ruby without
+  the fluff.
+
+- Mom, the Minimal Object Machine layer is the first machine layer. Mom has no concept of memory
+  yet, only objects. Data is transferred directly from object
+  to object with one of Mom's main instructions, the SlotLoad.
+
+- Risc layer here abstracts the Arm in a minimal and independent way. It does not model
+  any real RISC cpu instruction set, but rather implements what is needed for rubyx.
+
+- There is a minimal *Arm* translator that transforms Risc instructions to Arm instructions.
+  Arm instructions assemble themselves into binary code. A minimal *Elf* implementation is
+  able to create executable binaries from the assembled code and Parfait objects.
+
+- Parfait: Generating code (by descending above layers) is only half the story in an oo system.
+  The other half is classes, types, constant objects and a minimal run-time. This is
+  what is Parfait is.
+
+## Compiling and building
+
+After having finished all this layering work, i was back to square *resolve*: how to
+dynamically, at run-time, resolve a method to binary. The strategy was going to be to have
+some short risc based check and bail out to a method.
+
+But off course when i got there i started thinking that the resolve method (in ruby)
+would need resolve itself. And after briefly considering cheating (hardcoding type
+information into this *one* method), i opted to write the code in Risc. Basically assembler.
+
+And it was horrible. It worked, but it was completely unreadable. So then i wrote a dsl for
+generating risc instructions, using a combination of method_missing, instance_eval and
+operator overloading. The result is quite readable code, a mixture between assembler and
+a mathematical notation, where one can just freely name registers and move data around
+with *[]* and *<<*.
+
+By then resolving worked, but it was still a method. Since it was already in risc, i basically
+inlined the code by creating a new Mom instruction and moving the code to it's *to_risc*.
+Now resolving still worked, and also looked good.
+
+A small bug in calling the resulting method was fixed, and *voila*, ruby-x can dynamically call
+any method.
+
+## The proof
+
+Previous, static, Hello Worlds looked like this:
+> "Hello world".putstring
+
+Off course we can know the type that putstring applies to and so this does not
+involve any method resolution at runtime, only at compile time.
+
+Todays step is thus:
+> a = "Hello World"
+
+> a.putstring
+
+This does involve a run-time lookup of the *putstring* method. It being a method on String,
+it is indeed found and called.(1) Hurray.
+
+And maths works too:
+> a = 150
+
+> a.div10
+
+Does indeed result in 15. Even with the *new* integers. Part of the rewrite was to upgrade
+integers to first class objects.
+
+PS(1): I know with more analysis the compiler *could* now that *a* is a String (or Integer),
+but just now it doesn't. Take my word for it or even better, read the code.