On 30 Apr 2004, at 19:30, Leopold Toetsch wrote:
Like it or not DOD/GC has different impacts on the embedder. Above rules
are simple. There is no "when the PMC isn't used any more decrement a
refcount" and "when you do that and that then icnrement a refcount" or
some such like in XS. This is really simple. Simplest is to just set the
top of stack.
I am now going to be impolite.
THERE ARE CASES WHERE YOU CAN NOT SET A TOP OF STACK, FOR EXAMPLE IF YOU ARE WRITING A PLUGIN TO A BINARY ONLY APPLICATION LIKE INTERNET EXPLORER OR WRITING AN APACHE2 SHARED LIBRARY THAT IS SUPPOSED TO WORK WITH PRE COMPILED BINARIES, NOT TO MENTION A LOT OF APPLICATIONS THAT MIGHT WANT TO EMBED PARROT AS AN OPTION MIGHT FEEL IT IS A TAD FUCKING UNCLEAN TO RUN THEIR ENTIRE APPLICATION THROUGH PARROT (THINK OPENOFFICE)
I am amazed by the fact that parrot seems determined to redo the same misstakes perl5 did.
Arthur
