Simon Cozens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 06, 2001 at 11:05:37AM +0100, Dave Mitchell wrote:
> > I'm trying to get my head round the relationship between pad lexicals,
> > pad tmps, and registers (if any).
>
> It's exactly the same as the relationship between auto variables, C
> temporaries and machine registers.
Hmmm, except that at the hardware level, registers can store the actual
temporary values themselves, whereas the PMC registers in the parrot VM
only hold pointers to the values, and storage for these values need to be
allocated by some other mechanism.
