>>>>> "ST" == Sam Tregar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
ST> Lo tho we walk through the valley of the shadow of the JVM... Is
ST> anyone else nervous that we seem to be trying to replace GCC here?
ST> Is register allocation really something the Perl community has
ST> expertise in?
one more time: a software virtual machine is a very different beast than
a real hardware cpu. we don't have the many cost and speed restrictions
(breaking pipelines, branch prediction, out of order execution, etc.)
that modern cpu's have. we have our own issues like switch vs. lookup,
cache hits, loop speed, etc.
the part about managing registers is not hard. that is very old compiler
technology from the classic CISC machines which didn't have pipelines
and wierd stuff. so this has nothing to do with replacing GCC or any
other compiler or VM). this is just about santana (or parrot which i
don't prefer as much) and its VM (which is what dan and co. are
designing).
uri
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