Re: RFC 35 / Re: perl6-internals-gc sublist

[John Tobey]

Dan Sugalski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >     ``Abundant macros, inline functions, and API functions will be
> >     used wherever possible so as to allow fundamental changes to the
> >     internal representation.''
> 
> That belongs in a different RFC, the one roughing out the embedding, 
> extension, and opcode APIs. (I've got those half-done too... :)

Just as long as it gets mentioned somewhere, I'll be happy.  :-)

> I'm starting to lean to a threaded/unthreaded pair of vtables for each 
> variable type, so you only call the locking code once a variable's been 
> explicitly shared (and therefore has a valid threading vtable as well as 
> presumably a valid sync structure)

That sounds like a good idea to me.

-- 
John Tobey, late nite hacker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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