On Mon, Jan 30, 2006 at 03:54:51PM +0100, Leopold Toetsch wrote: > I think, we should use the constant table and allow storing into > the constant table.
I don't know the parrot source code well enough to know whether the constant table is static const at the C level. (Or capable of being compiled that way). But my comment is that Jarkko recently put considerable effort into cleaning up the Perl 5 core so that as much data as possible was static const, so that it facilitated shared library use. (In this case for Symbian) So I (mis)interpret "storing to the constant table" as "aaargh, can't be static const" which feels bad to me. So if the constant table can be static const, does this mean that parrot would benefit from a compile time initialised constant table, and a "run time" initialised constant table? With your proposed writable C static variables in the run time initialised table. Nicholas Clark
