[racket] Racket VM in Racket

2014-08-06 16:10 GMT+02:00 Robby Findler <robby at eecs.northwestern.edu>:
> I think this is awesome too!
>
> Is there some way we can use this to help make Racket better, do you think?

That wasn't the motivation per se, but it might have some potential uses.
A simple application would be to collect statistics of the bytecodes used.
Another would be to add a tracer.

> Would it be useful as a test oracle? Is there a way to maybe
> re-interpret the function definitions (say put them into a different
> "#lang") you've written to get some kind of a cool random bytecode
> generator maybe?

I am not sure what you mean here.

/Jens Axel