Bytecode for transfer
This page is to list ideas and their pros and cons.
Adapt transfer to use bytecode instead of tree walking.
This task would be write a compiler and interpreter for Apertium transfer rules into the format of an an off-the-shelf bytecode engine (e.g. Java, v8, kjs, ...).
Java bytecode
- There is a zillion of Open Source Java bytecode interpreters to choose from, most prominent Sun's own and http://kaffe.org.
- Considering that lttoolbox is on its way to being ported to Java. If Java bytecode was chosen this might eventually make Apertium run on J2ME devices (only the tagger is missing for a full system).
<jacobEo> spectie: jimregan I don't know, but I suppose that Java byte would run fastest, as there have been extremely much work on optimize its speed, on different platforms....
<jacobEo> spectie: jimregan Also think in terms of some day get Apertium on a mobile phone.... then transfer in Java bytecode would be the easiest thing. But writing a J2ME bytecode executor.... pheh....
<jacobEo> spectie: jimregan Actually, if we get lttoolbox-java to work AND have Java bytecode for transfer, then we instantly HAVE apertium running on phones! And also on Windows, VAX etc, whatever can run Java bytecode
V8 bytecode
A Javascript engine. See [[1]]
