Re: Trade-offs

2001-02-12 Thread Dan Sugalski
At 04:13 PM 2/12/2001 +, Simon Cozens wrote: >How much can we do in the compiler, and how much can we do in the >interpreter? If we're having cached bytecode, it makes sense to do >as much optimization as we can in the compiler. If not, we might >as well brute force things to conserve compilat

Re: Trade-offs

2001-02-12 Thread Dan Sugalski
At 09:34 AM 2/12/2001 -0800, Jan Dubois wrote: >On Mon, 12 Feb 2001 16:13:10 +, Simon Cozens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >How much can we do in the compiler, and how much can we do in the > >interpreter? If we're having cached bytecode, it makes sense to do > >as much optimization as we can

Re: Trade-offs

2001-02-12 Thread Dan Sugalski
At 12:25 PM 2/12/2001 -0500, Bryan C. Warnock wrote: >On Monday 12 February 2001 12:40, Branden wrote: > > Probably Perl 6 programs will be cached/distributed in optimized byte code > > format. > >I'm not sure about the leading 'probably'. Perl 6 programs will most likely >be like most other open

Re: Trade-offs

2001-02-12 Thread Jan Dubois
On Mon, 12 Feb 2001 16:13:10 +, Simon Cozens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >How much can we do in the compiler, and how much can we do in the >interpreter? If we're having cached bytecode, it makes sense to do >as much optimization as we can in the compiler. If not, we might >as well brute forc

Re: Trade-offs

2001-02-12 Thread Bryan C. Warnock
On Monday 12 February 2001 12:40, Branden wrote: > Probably Perl 6 programs will be cached/distributed in optimized byte code > format. I'm not sure about the leading 'probably'. Perl 6 programs will most likely be like most other open-source programs in other languages - either source, which

Re: Trade-offs

2001-02-12 Thread Branden
Simon Cozens wrote: > How much can we do in the compiler, and how much can we do in the > interpreter? If we're having cached bytecode, it makes sense to do > as much optimization as we can in the compiler. I thought, by PDD 1 (http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/msg02116.html), it was: SOURCE CODE

Trade-offs

2001-02-12 Thread Simon Cozens
How much can we do in the compiler, and how much can we do in the interpreter? If we're having cached bytecode, it makes sense to do as much optimization as we can in the compiler. If not, we might as well brute force things to conserve compilation time. Or should this be user-selectable with "us