Re: Opcode numbers

2001-11-05 Thread Brian Wheeler
On Sat, 2001-11-03 at 22:11, Gregor N. Purdy wrote: > Brian -- > > > > None of these are issues with the approach I've been working on / > > > advocating. I'm hoping we can avoid these altogether. > > > > > > > I think this is a cool concept, but it seems like a lot of overhead with > > the str

Re: Opcode numbers

2001-11-04 Thread Dan Sugalski
At 09:57 PM 11/3/2001 -0500, Brian Wheeler wrote: >On Sat, 2001-11-03 at 21:40, Gregor N. Purdy wrote: > > > > None of these are issues with the approach I've been working on / > > advocating. I'm hoping we can avoid these altogether. > > > > >I think this is a cool concept, but it seems like a lo

Re: Opcode numbers

2001-11-03 Thread Benjamin Stuhl
--- "Gregor N. Purdy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Brian -- > > > > None of these are issues with the approach I've been > working on / > > > advocating. I'm hoping we can avoid these altogether. > > > > > > > I think this is a cool concept, but it seems like a lot > of overhead with > > the st

Re: Opcode numbers

2001-11-03 Thread James Mastros
On Sat, Nov 03, 2001 at 09:40:14PM -0500, Gregor N. Purdy wrote: > Let me try to illustrate what I'm thinking a little more clearly. The > program: > > .use core > set I0, 5 > set I1, 37 > add I2, I0, I1 > print I2 > print "\n" > end > > would have an opcode_table in the pac

Re: Opcode numbers

2001-11-03 Thread Gregor N. Purdy
Brian -- > > None of these are issues with the approach I've been working on / > > advocating. I'm hoping we can avoid these altogether. > > > > I think this is a cool concept, but it seems like a lot of overhead with > the string lookups. I'm hoping we can keep the string lookups in order t

Re: Opcode numbers

2001-11-03 Thread Brian Wheeler
On Sat, 2001-11-03 at 21:40, Gregor N. Purdy wrote: > James -- > > > We're going to have to think about assigning static opcode numbers, > > instead of the current order-defined. For one thing, we're looking at > > perpetual bytecode compatablity (no?). This isn't really a Big Deal, but we >

Re: Opcode numbers

2001-11-03 Thread Gregor N. Purdy
James -- > We're going to have to think about assigning static opcode numbers, > instead of the current order-defined. For one thing, we're looking at > perpetual bytecode compatablity (no?). This isn't really a Big Deal, but we > need to: > 1) Define an ordering on things like open(i, s|sc,