On Wed, Sep 01, 2004 at 05:17:55PM +0200, Leopold Toetsch wrote: > PMCs are using too much memory (5 words for an Integer PMC, 11 + n > words plus two indirection for an object with n attributes). The > reduction of IIRC 9 words to the current 5 words almost doubled > execution speed for not too small amounts of allocated PMCs.
I would be much happier if we got to a functionally complete implementation of parrot with stable, useful APIs first. And then put effort into optimising the implementation behind the scenes. Based on more complete knowledge of how things performed on code generated from real language compilers. It may well turn out that your proposals make sense then, as well as now. But I feel what's holding things up is not lack of speed, but lack of completeness. Nicholas Clark
