Re: Stacks, registers, and bytecode. (Oh, my!)

[Randal L. Schwartz]

>>>>> "Larry" == Larry Wall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

Larry> : Nah, bytecode'll have an endianness marker at the top. If you
Larry> : load in bytecode with the wrong endianness, the loader will
Larry> : have to swap for you.

Larry> Er.  If they're not bytes, we can't call it bytecode.

Unless you want to raise the "octet means 8 bits, byte means whatever
is nice and chunky" argument. :)

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