Erik Lechak wrote:
> I am also trying to document the various structs and their interactions. > Can anyone out there give a brief description of following: > Arena > Memory_Pool > Buffer > Memory_Block > Small_Object_Pool > Small_Object_Arena I did announce to write a document on the memory management internals not too long ago. So await somd pod ;-) in the near future. > Is there a document out there that describes the genclass.pl script, > Vtable.pm and how pmc files become C files? If I wanted to write a > section on creating a new pmc, what is the simplest one to show? $ perldoc docs/vtable.pod > Is > there the equivalent to a hello world pmc? The only documentation in > Vtable.pm says 'No user-serviceable parts inside'. This is funny, but > it didn't help me figure out what is going on. Actually "hello world" is not the intent, what a class can do. Classes implement the behaviuor of e.g PerlIntegers or -hashes. Your mentioned Vtable.pm is just "use"d by genclass.pl to do some file parsing, that's all, it's a utility class. > Thanks, > Erik leo
