At 08:53 PM 3/21/2002 -0800, Brent Dax wrote: >Just do "$1=Parrot_sprintf_c(interpreter, "%Vd", $2);". I've already >implemented this logic there; there's no sense having it in the core >twice.
Calling the sprintf routine is kind of expensive if the op is only to convert an int to a base10 string rep. We are talking dozen lines of C code for the op. -Melvin