Getting Started FAQ

2002-07-29 Thread Michel Lambert
Attached is a FAQ I wrote up over a couple days to hopefully prepare for any TPC fallout that might occur. (and FAQs are a good thing, from what I hear). Anyways, any thoughts on where it should go, how it should be reworked to fit in with other documentation, etc would be appreciated. Just looki

admin question: mail gets tagged as spam when mailing bugs..@perl..

2002-07-29 Thread Josef Höök
As im not that familiar with spamassasin maybe someone could help me stop getting my mail tagged as spam when mailing patches.. /Josef

Re: I'm back...

2002-07-29 Thread Sean O'Rourke
On Mon, 29 Jul 2002, Dan Sugalski wrote: > If I thought anyone'd do control flow with it, I'd have a version of > the op for that, but I don't think we're going to see that, and perl > doesn't do it, so... Okay, writing this email has convinced me that maybe we don't need these ops. If Perl's go

Re: of Mops, jit and perl6

2002-07-29 Thread Melvin Smith
At 07:57 PM 7/29/2002 -0700, Sean O'Rourke wrote: >On Mon, 29 Jul 2002, Dan Sugalski wrote: > > Just out of curiosity, I presume the (rather abysmal) perl 6 numbers > > include time to generate the assembly and assemble it--have you tried > > running the generated code by itself as a test? (At the

Re: I'm back...

2002-07-29 Thread Dan Sugalski
At 8:13 PM -0700 7/29/02, Sean O'Rourke wrote: >On Mon, 29 Jul 2002, Dan Sugalski wrote: > >> In the mean time, someone can go ahead and implement the cmps and >> cmpi ops to do string and integer compares respectively. > >Do you mean {gt,ge,eq,ne,le,lt}{s,n} conditional branches, or something >

Re: I'm back...

2002-07-29 Thread Sean O'Rourke
On Mon, 29 Jul 2002, Dan Sugalski wrote: > In the mean time, someone can go ahead and implement the cmps and > cmpi ops to do string and integer compares respectively. Do you mean {gt,ge,eq,ne,le,lt}{s,n} conditional branches, or something like "cmps Ix, Py, Pz"? Also, would num-comparisons be

Re: of Mops, jit and perl6

2002-07-29 Thread Sean O'Rourke
On Mon, 29 Jul 2002, Dan Sugalski wrote: > Just out of curiosity, I presume the (rather abysmal) perl 6 numbers > include time to generate the assembly and assemble it--have you tried > running the generated code by itself as a test? (At the moment, the > assembler's rather slow) It's mostly the

Re: of Mops, jit and perl6

2002-07-29 Thread Dan Sugalski
At 10:44 AM +0200 7/28/02, Leopold Toetsch wrote: >2) Some Mops numbers, all on i386/linux Athlon 800, slightly shortend: >(»make mops« in parrot root) Just out of curiosity, I presume the (rather abysmal) perl 6 numbers include time to generate the assembly and assemble it--have you tried runnin

Re: ARM Jit v2

2002-07-29 Thread Daniel Grunblatt
I thing I forgot to tell is that I also have added a constant pool which could be usefull for the ARM too, it's on my local tree,I don't know exactly when I'm going to finish it. Daniel Grunblatt.

Re: ARM Jit v2

2002-07-29 Thread Daniel Grunblatt
On Mon, 29 Jul 2002, Nicholas Clark wrote: > Here's a very minimal ARM jit framework. It does work (at least as far as > passing all 10 t/op/basic.t subtests, and running mops.pbc) Cool, I have also been playing with ARM but your approach is in better shape. (I'll send you a copy of what I got h

[perl #15805] [PATCH] some trivial offerings to the compiler gods

2002-07-29 Thread via RT
# New Ticket Created by Jarkko Hietaniemi # Please include the string: [perl #15805] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # http://rt.perl.org/rt2/Ticket/Display.html?id=15805 > Please find attached some very minor tweaks to keep the Tru64 compiler content and

[perl #15802] [PATCH] genclass.pl and new addclass.pl

2002-07-29 Thread via RT
# New Ticket Created by [EMAIL PROTECTED] # Please include the string: [perl #15802] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # http://rt.perl.org/rt2/Ticket/Display.html?id=15802 > I started working on implementing a Tuple pmc as someone else suggested as a good

Re: [perl #15800] [PATCH] lexical scope ops, test and example

2002-07-29 Thread Simon Glover
I think you forgot to attach the patch... Simon

[perl #15800] [PATCH] lexical scope ops, test and example

2002-07-29 Thread via RT
# New Ticket Created by Jonathan Sillito # Please include the string: [perl #15800] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # http://rt.perl.org/rt2/Ticket/Display.html?id=15800 > The attached patch implements a set of lexical ops. Lexical pads are implemented as

[COMMIT] missing newline in unknown option error message

2002-07-29 Thread Nicholas Clark
I can't remember if I'm supposed to e-mail details of this to perl6-internals, but I've just committed this: $ cvs diff -pu test_main.c Index: test_main.c === RCS file: /cvs/public/parrot/test_main.c,v retrieving revision 1.54 diff -

ARM Jit v2

2002-07-29 Thread Nicholas Clark
Here's a very minimal ARM jit framework. It does work (at least as far as passing all 10 t/op/basic.t subtests, and running mops.pbc) As you can see from the patch all it does is implement the end and noop ops. Everything else is being called. Interestingly, JITing like this is slower than comput

[perl #15797] [PATCH] Regex speedup

2002-07-29 Thread via RT
# New Ticket Created by Angel Faus # Please include the string: [perl #15797] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # http://rt.perl.org/rt2/Ticket/Display.html?id=15797 > Hi, I've made a patch for the regex engine, designed with the single goal of seriously

I'm back...

2002-07-29 Thread Dan Sugalski
And I'll be digging through the backlog of mail. On the top 'o the list is keys, defining the extension mechanism, and the exception infrastructure. We'll go from there. In the mean time, someone can go ahead and implement the cmps and cmpi ops to do string and integer compares respectively.

Re: we need more ops.

2002-07-29 Thread Eric Kidder
On Mon, 29 Jul 2002, Nicholas Clark wrote: > [Maybe we should have a competition to suggest the most crazy three character > operator - ie state your sequence of three characters (not necessarily ASCII, > but it helps), state their name, and state their purpose (including whether > listop, binop

RE: we need more ops.

2002-07-29 Thread gregor
How about (with a tip o' th' hat to DEK): SWYM (Sympathize With Your Machinery) -- Gregor

RE: we need more ops.

2002-07-29 Thread Marc M. Adkins
> [Maybe we should have a competition to suggest the most crazy > three character > operator - ie state your sequence of three characters (not > necessarily ASCII, > but it helps), state their name, and state their purpose > (including whether > listop, binop, uniop, precedence, associativity or w

Re: we need more ops.

2002-07-29 Thread Melvin Smith
At 10:45 AM 7/29/2002 +0100, Nicholas Clark wrote: >[Maybe we should have a competition to suggest the most crazy three character >operator - ie state your sequence of three characters (not necessarily ASCII, >but it helps), state their name, and state their purpose (including whether >listop, bin

Re: we need more ops.

2002-07-29 Thread Nicholas Clark
On Sun, Jul 28, 2002 at 06:59:50PM -0700, Sean O'Rourke wrote: > On Sun, 28 Jul 2002, Nicholas Clark wrote: > > On Sat, Jul 27, 2002 at 08:07:50PM -0700, Sean O'Rourke wrote: > > > Whether plain cmp (as a vtable function or an op on PMCs) should be kept > > > at all is questionable -- there's no w