Re: VM, closures, continuation

2002-02-10 Thread Dan Sugalski
At 6:59 PM + 2/10/02, Nicholas Clark wrote: >On Sun, Feb 10, 2002 at 12:08:27PM -0500, Dan Sugalski wrote: >> The one downside to having continuations is it makes optimizing away >> variables, even temp ones, a little tough--on switch to any code that >> might create a continuation we need

Re: VM, closures, continuation

2002-02-10 Thread Nicholas Clark
On Sun, Feb 10, 2002 at 12:08:27PM -0500, Dan Sugalski wrote: > The one downside to having continuations is it makes optimizing away > variables, even temp ones, a little tough--on switch to any code that > might create a continuation we need to flush out from registers to a > holding area, and

Re: VM, closures, continuation

2002-02-10 Thread Dan Sugalski
At 1:37 AM +0200 2/9/02, raptor wrote: >I was just reading this : > >http://www.javalobby.com/clr.html > >and a question raised to me. Will Parrot have some optimisation >(features) that will speed up closures & continuation ? Closures are a very fundamental thing in perl, and they've got to be

Re: VM, closures, continuation

2002-02-09 Thread Larry Wall
raptor writes: : I was just reading this : : : http://www.javalobby.com/clr.html : : and a question raised to me. Will Parrot have some optimisation : (features) that will speed up closures & continuation ? Well, we understand closures pretty well already, since Perl 5 has 'em. Most of the opt

Re: VM, closures, continuation

2002-02-09 Thread raptor
oops i forgot can u comment this page from the perspective of Parrot-VM, i.e. where we are better,worse compared to JVM & CLR. > I was just reading this : > > http://www.javalobby.com/clr.html > > and a question raised to me. Will Parrot have some optimisation > (features) that will speed up cl

VM, closures, continuation

2002-02-09 Thread raptor
I was just reading this : http://www.javalobby.com/clr.html and a question raised to me. Will Parrot have some optimisation (features) that will speed up closures & continuation ? raptor [EMAIL PROTECTED]