On Wed, 2004-04-21 at 10:13, Simon Glover wrote:
> Absolutely -- I really, _really_ want to be able to use hyper ops with
> fixed size, floating point arrays, and to have that be as fast as
> possible, as that should make it possible to implement something like
> PDL in the core.
Mistake.
You don't want to have to convert to-and-from arrays of PMCs in order to
do those ops, and regardless of what kind of hyper-nifty-mumbo-jumbo you
put into Parrot, that's exactly what you're going to have to do.
In fact, Parrot Data Language (if there were such a thing) would likely
introduce its own runtime-loadable opcode set to operate on a new PMC
type called a piddle. Then, each client language could define (in a
module/library) its own means of interacting with a piddle. For example
in Perl, you might:
multi method new(Class $class, int @ary) {...}
multi method new(Class $class, float @ary) {...}
multi method new(Class $class, int $value) {...}
multi method new(Class $class, Octets $value: %*_) {...}
and then you would override BUILD in order to emit your special piddle
opcodes.
Then, in user-space:
my PDL::Piddle $foo = [1,2,3,4,5,6];
Does what you expect, and
$foo + $bar
is special.
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