Dan Sugalski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:If we go MMD all the way, we can skip the bytecode->C->bytecode transition for MMD functions that are written in parrot bytecode, and instead dispatch to them like any other sub.
Not really. Or not w/o significant overhead for MMD functions implemented in C.
Well... about that. It's actually easily doable with a bit of trickery. We can either:
1) Mark the overload subs as special and change their calling conventions
2) Wrap the overload subs in some bytecode that Does The Right Thing--takes a continuation, pushes the registers to the stack, then calls the overload sub--when we add them to the MMD table.
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