At 03:28 PM 10/23/00 -0500, Garrett Goebel wrote:
>From: Dan Sugalski [<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > (Though if someone comes up with a way to make the
> > platform-dependent bits really small and isolated I'm all for it)
>
>Hmm... I'm 99.9% ignorant on this subject, but doesn't this relate back to
>past discussions of C--, the portable assembly language?
>(www.cminusminus.org) I realize C-- isn't just immature, its premature...
>But there are probably ideas to be gained by sifting through the projects
>papers and code.
I don't think so--we want perl to generate the executable code directly. If
we're generating an intermediate language that then gets compiled, we might
as well use C. (Even though it's rather limited)
I like the idea of returning multiple results in multiple registers. Pity
nothing on the planet could link to us if we did that... :(
Dan
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