Re: parrot stack and Z-machine

2003-10-08 Thread Amir Karger
Luke Palmer writes: > Amir Karger writes: > > > > I realized that I get in trouble when we get to the save/restore > > commands. Those are supposed to save and restore the call stack, which > > includes the subroutine addresses & all the local variables in the > > various routines. Am I right in

Re: parrot stack and Z-machine

2003-10-08 Thread Leopold Toetsch
Luke Palmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Maybe continuations aren't so hard to serialize after all (well, > excluding things like open filehandles and such). What's the status on > the serialization subsystem? *nobody* did answer my summary of different schemes. > Luke leo

Re: parrot stack and Z-machine

2003-10-07 Thread Luke Palmer
Amir Karger writes: > Still working on the prelude to the preface to the "Z-machine running > natively on Parrot" project, namely translating Z-code into a Perl > executable. (My brother, who's a CS professor so he should know, says > I'm actually *compiling* it. Compiling bytecode to an interprete

parrot stack and Z-machine

2003-10-07 Thread Amir Karger
Still working on the prelude to the preface to the "Z-machine running natively on Parrot" project, namely translating Z-code into a Perl executable. (My brother, who's a CS professor so he should know, says I'm actually *compiling* it. Compiling bytecode to an interpreted language? Weird!) I'm maki