Re: Assembler rewrite...

2002-05-17 Thread Jeff
Dan Sugalski wrote: > > At 10:41 PM -0400 5/17/02, Jeff wrote: > >I'm about ready to commit the fixes to the current assembler, which will > >finally make proper keyed aggregate access ready. Looking at the test > >suite, I see some places where we use raw opcode names, such as > >'ne_n_nc_ic'. I

Re: Parrot assembler... in parrot?

2002-05-17 Thread Steve Fink
On Thu, May 16, 2002 at 05:01:42PM -0700, Steve Fink wrote: > On Thu, May 16, 2002 at 04:25:39PM -0300, Daniel Grunblatt wrote: > > > > I will rewrite some parts once I (or someone) gets out a bug in the hashes > > (I created a hash with 722 key/value pairs and ~360 got lost) > > I'll fix that b

Re: Assembler rewrite...

2002-05-17 Thread Dan Sugalski
At 10:41 PM -0400 5/17/02, Jeff wrote: >I'm about ready to commit the fixes to the current assembler, which will >finally make proper keyed aggregate access ready. Looking at the test >suite, I see some places where we use raw opcode names, such as >'ne_n_nc_ic'. It appears to be random, and I'd l

Assembler rewrite...

2002-05-17 Thread Jeff
I'm about ready to commit the fixes to the current assembler, which will finally make proper keyed aggregate access ready. Looking at the test suite, I see some places where we use raw opcode names, such as 'ne_n_nc_ic'. It appears to be random, and I'd like to know if keeping the ability to acces

[netlabs #593] Call me 00247

2002-05-17 Thread Wild Cats
# New Ticket Created by "Wild Cats" # Please include the string: [netlabs #593] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # http://bugs6.perl.org/rt2/Ticket/Display.html?id=593 > Hello I am your hot lil horny toy. I am the one you dream About, I am a very

RE: FIRST, BETWEEN, etc.. (was Re: Loop controls)

2002-05-17 Thread Luke Palmer
On 16 May 2002, Aaron Sherman wrote: > On Thu, 2002-05-16 at 16:13, David Whipp wrote: > > Aaron Sherman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote: > > > You might not be able to REASONABLY get a length, so you return > > > undef. In your documentation, you advise users not to take the length, > > > but j

Re: PMC pdd's in

2002-05-17 Thread Nicholas Clark
On Fri, May 17, 2002 at 03:27:44PM -0400, Dan Sugalski wrote: > At 8:04 PM +0100 5/17/02, Nicholas Clark wrote: > >On Thu, May 16, 2002 at 08:37:32PM -0400, Dan Sugalski wrote: > >> Pssst. Brent. Don't tell anyone, but ~0 *is* -1... :) > > > >$ perl -le 'print ~0' > >4294967295 > >$ perl -le 'prin

Re: PMC pdd's in

2002-05-17 Thread Dan Sugalski
At 8:04 PM +0100 5/17/02, Nicholas Clark wrote: >On Thu, May 16, 2002 at 08:37:32PM -0400, Dan Sugalski wrote: >> Pssst. Brent. Don't tell anyone, but ~0 *is* -1... :) > >$ perl -le 'print ~0' >4294967295 >$ perl -le 'print -1' >-1 > >What language were we talking about? :-) C, of course. Perl's

Re: PMC pdd's in

2002-05-17 Thread Nicholas Clark
On Thu, May 16, 2002 at 08:37:32PM -0400, Dan Sugalski wrote: > Pssst. Brent. Don't tell anyone, but ~0 *is* -1... :) $ perl -le 'print ~0' 4294967295 $ perl -le 'print -1' -1 What language were we talking about? :-) [Actually, this is a big area of :-( Because perl programmers are used to wr

Patch List

2002-05-17 Thread Robert Spier
New! See the list of open/patches in the bugtracker. http://www.parrotcode.org/openpatches (Next step is to have tickets where $subject =~ /\[patch\]/i automatically be marked as patches -- so I don't have to do it by hand.) -R

RE: PMC pdd's in

2002-05-17 Thread Dan Sugalski
At 9:22 PM -0700 5/16/02, Brent Dax wrote: >Dan Sugalski: ># At 5:28 PM -0700 5/16/02, Brent Dax wrote: ># >Dan Sugalski: ># ># Okay, I've checked in the final changes to this edit of ># PDD 2, the # ># >vtable pdd. Tine to rip into it^W^W^Wexamine it closely. :) ># > ># >I guess I'm first. ># > >

Re: Difference between memory and string pools

2002-05-17 Thread Dan Sugalski
At 9:00 AM +0200 5/17/02, Peter Gibbs wrote: >A side effect of the split pools is targeted compaction i.e. the buffer pool >gets compacted only when it is full, and the string pool likewise - this >does provide a performance benefit in situations where one pool grows >regularly and the other does