That's okay - I've also considered and discarded Parrot. ;-) Good luck with Parrot guys. I will check out either Mono or Lua's VM for my purposes. Thanks.
--- Dan Sugalski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > At 2:34 PM -0800 12/27/03, Joe Wilson wrote: > >I get consistantly much better timings when arguments of prototyped functions > >(regardless of type, number of arguments, or whether it is a vararg function) > >are simply all passed in a single PMC array unconditionally. > > > >Please consider it. > > Considered, but also discarded. I'm reasonably happy with how things > are behaving now, other than the issues of inefficiencies in the > array classes. Parameter registers make prototyped calling much > faster, and I'm not convinced they slow down the non-prototyped case > enough to make the change. IMCC has some issues of excessive saving > that need addressing at some point, and the code generated to access > @_ in perl 5 can be optimized a lot better than what most folks have > been doing when emulating it by hand. > > Also, as has been pointed out, a good bit of the cost for the IMCC > style calls has nothing to do with registers at all, rather with the > cost to set up the continuation for the return, something that we > also may need to address. > -- > Dan > > --------------------------------------"it's like this"------------------- > Dan Sugalski even samurai > [EMAIL PROTECTED] have teddy bears and even > teddy bears get drunk __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? New Yahoo! Photos - easier uploading and sharing. http://photos.yahoo.com/
