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On 04/01/04 Goplat wrote:
> > I read in the FAQ, vis a vis using the .NET instead of writing your own
> > "The .NET VM didn't even exist when we started development, or at least we
> > didn't know about i
On 04/01/04 Goplat wrote:
> > I read in the FAQ, vis a vis using the .NET instead of writing your own
> > "The .NET VM didn't even exist when we started development, or at least we
> > didn't know about it when we were working on the design. We do now, though
> > it's still not suitable."
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> T
--- Kent Tegels <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hello, all, and greetings from Omaha.
>
> I read in the FAQ, vis a vis using the .NET instead of writing your own
> "The .NET VM didn't even exist when we started development, or at least we
> didn't know about it when we were working on the design. We
On Mon, 2004-03-15 at 04:26, Tim Bunce wrote:
> Is someone tracking the mailing list and adding questions and (good)
> answers into the FAQ?
Whoops, I'd planned to add this opcode question and answer to the FAQ
this weekend. Thanks for the reminder, Tim!
-- c
On Fri, Mar 12, 2004 at 10:03:19AM -0500, Dan Sugalski wrote:
> At 6:06 PM -0500 3/11/04, Matt Greenwood wrote:
> >Hi all,
> > I have a newbie question. If the answer exists in a doc, just
> >point the way (I browsed the docs directory). What is the design
> >rationale for so many opcodes in pa
My weekly perusing on parrot lists...
On 03/12/04 Dan Sugalski wrote:
> For example, if you look you'll see we have 28 binary "add" ops.
> .NET, on the other hand, only has one, and most hardware CPUs have a
Actually, there are three opcodes: add, add.ovf, add.ovf.un (the last
two throw an ex
Matt Greenwood wrote:
> Firstly, you have made an assumption that the addition here is
> equivalent to OR and carry, which may be correct for certain
> representations of integral datatypes, but certainly isn't for any
> kind of floating point arithmetic that I know of.
True enough, but I think I g
> How, exactly, is taking two strings, making a third string that's big
> enough to contain both, and copying the contents of those two strings
> into the third one like taking two numbers, doing a binary OR with
> carry, and storing the result in a third number?
Firstly, you have made an assumpti
Matt Greenwood wrote:
> why have both concat and
> add...?
How, exactly, is taking two strings, making a third string that's big
enough to contain both, and copying the contents of those two strings
into the third one like taking two numbers, doing a binary OR with
carry, and storing the result
ay, March 12, 2004 2:07 AM
To: Matt Greenwood
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: newbie question
Matt Greenwood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi all,
> I have a newbie question. If the answer exists in a doc, just
> point the way (I browsed the docs directory). What
At 6:06 PM -0500 3/11/04, Matt Greenwood wrote:
Hi all,
I have a newbie question. If the answer exists in a doc, just
point the way (I browsed the docs directory). What is the design
rationale for so many opcodes in parrot? What are the criteria for
adding/deleting them?
Whether we have a l
d
add...?
Matt
> -Original Message-
> From: Leopold Toetsch [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Friday, March 12, 2004 2:07 AM
> To: Matt Greenwood
> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: newbie question
>
> Matt Greenwood <[EMAIL PROTECTE
Matt Greenwood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi all,
> I have a newbie question. If the answer exists in a doc, just
> point the way (I browsed the docs directory). What is the design
> rationale for so many opcodes in parrot?
We have four different register types. They have to be covered by
Matt Greenwood wrote:
I have a newbie question. If the answer exists in a doc, just
point the way (I browsed the docs directory). What is the design
rationale for so many opcodes in parrot?
Let me try as another newbie... ;-)
Since the opcodes of parrot are not directly supported by any e
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