Hlvm

Welcome to the High-Level Virtual Machine (HLVM) project. This open source project is designed to provide a virtual machine to support modern statically-typed functional programming languages easily and with performance characteristics ideally suited to scientific computing.

HLVM currently sports the following features:

. Unit, bool, int and float primitive types. . Tuples. . Arrays. . Union types. . Function pointers. . Tail call elimination of all tail calls. . Generic printing. . Foreign function interface to call C directly. . POSIX threads. . Mark and sweep garbage collector that allows threads to run in parallel. . Incremental JIT compilation to high-performance native code suitable for a REPL.

HLVM aspires to provide the following features in the future:

. Closures. . Parametric polymorphism. . Global variables. . Generic comparison, equality, hashing and serialization functions. . A standard library.

-- Jon Harrop jon@ffconsultancy.com