At 08:20 AM 8/4/00 -0400, John Tobey wrote:
>Ken Fox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > John Tobey wrote:
> > > The Perl 5 (and older) behavior may preclude some optimizations.
> >
> > I can't think of any optimizations @_ assignment precludes.
> > If we don't analyze dataflow to figure out if a sub modifies its
> > args, then we just assume it will.
>
>Suppose we use the low 2 bits as a type marker, so 30-bit ints are
>representable directly in the "SV*".
Let's not--I really loathe that sort of thing, it can be a portability
nightmare, and it's an internals thing anyway.
Don't sweat the internals for this. Figure out whether its a good or bad
thing based on the language merits, not the internals issues.
Dan
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