Re: C# (.NET) has no interpreters

[Dan Sugalski]

On Wed, 2 Aug 2000, Kevin Scott wrote:

> While C might be fine and dandy for getting o.k. native code w/o too
> much implementation effort, I think that it might be worth the effort
> to implement a JIT compiler for the perl interpreter's intermediate
> language.

Given the number of OSes and chip architecture perl runs on, this is a
daunting task, and I don't think it should be a target for the core
development. Alternate backend, sure, but not a primary target.

We might want to leave that to the various OS vendors for now. Most of 'em
handle the high-performance JITs for their systems, and perl's as
important in some ways as Java. Besides, I can guarantee that the folks in
Dec engineering know the Alpha far better than anyone else we have handy
does, and the same can probably be said for the other chips. (Well, we've
got Jeff from HP and Alan from Sun, but they count as vendor folks...)

                                        Dan