Re: Possibility of XS support

2002-06-25 Thread Dan Sugalski
At 9:58 AM -0500 6/25/02, Dave Goehrig wrote: >On Tue, Jun 25, 2002 at 09:42:50AM -0500, Dan Sugalski wrote: >> That'd be cool. Be aware that Parrot, at the moment, has *no* >> extension API at the moment. > >Well the bigger problem for the XS compat layer will be the utter >lack of perl5 STASHe

Re: Possibility of XS support

2002-06-25 Thread Dave Goehrig
On Tue, Jun 25, 2002 at 09:42:50AM -0500, Dan Sugalski wrote: > That'd be cool. Be aware that Parrot, at the moment, has *no* > extension API at the moment. Well the bigger problem for the XS compat layer will be the utter lack of perl5 STASHes and GVs. The namespace games are just going to ha

Re: Possibility of XS support

2002-06-25 Thread Dan Sugalski
At 10:53 AM -0400 6/25/02, Josh Wilmes wrote: >And i think it's worth saying that the XS hook should be a well-behaved >parrot extension, once the extension API is defined. Having it get too >intertwined with parrot's guts would be a terrible thing. Oh, absolutely. The XS interface will be a lay

Re: Possibility of XS support

2002-06-25 Thread Josh Wilmes
And i think it's worth saying that the XS hook should be a well-behaved parrot extension, once the extension API is defined. Having it get too intertwined with parrot's guts would be a terrible thing. --Josh At 9:42 on 06/25/2002 CDT, Dan Sugalski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > At 8:41 AM -05

Re: Possibility of XS support

2002-06-25 Thread Dan Sugalski
At 8:41 AM -0500 6/25/02, Dave Goehrig wrote: >Last night I wanted to see just how much of the API very vanilla >XS code would require. In the limited sampling I did, I found >37 distinct functions and macros. Based on this, I'd say a reasonable >guestimate for minimal core functionality is abou