Leopold Toetsch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Matt Diephouse wrote: > > Dan wrote an entry on his blog yesterday entitled "WWIT: Universal > > bytecode": > > > > http://www.sidhe.org/~dan/blog/archives/000421.html > > > > In it, he talks (surprise, surprise) about being able to run bytecode > > across machines without the need of a compiler. If you look at the > > comments, I asked what this meant for PMCs. As it currently stands, > > many of the languages currently targeting Parrot would need their PMCs > > distributed in order to run any programs written in that language. > > Well, if you have some mixed environment, you'd probably build parrot on > all machines with the PMC's needed. Something like: > > perl Configure.pl --with-tcl --with-python > > to get these PMCs built on it.
Yes, but the point is that sometimes you don't have that power. In some cases you aren't able to configure Parrot, or install additional PMCs. That's when it matters. In those cases, you need to be able to create standalone bytecode. -- matt diephouse http://matt.diephouse.com
