is the AL v2 complete/finished yet

2003-02-27 Thread owenberesford
hi is RFC346 http://dev.perl.org/rfc/346.html , the final version of the perl licence, or is there a newer version that I should refer to? I note that the RFC was froozen in 2000, but have been unable to find a newer version. TIA Owen

Re: [RFC] imcc calling conventions

2003-02-27 Thread Dan Sugalski
At 6:57 PM -0500 2/27/03, Benjamin Goldberg wrote: These are, for all intents and purposes, tail-call optimized versions of the two functions you showed. True, this might not gain us much speed in perl5, but it demonstrates the type of effect that I think that we're aiming at, for parrot's tail-ca

RE: Parrot 0.0.10 freeze [x-adr]

2003-02-27 Thread Garrett Goebel
Jim Cromie wrote: > Jerome Quelin wrote: > >Steve Fink wrote: > >> > >>I'm assuming this will be 0.0.10 > > > >codename? I tried to resist... but I can't. How about "Orange Juice" as an homage to Leo's recent -Oj work? -- Garrett Goebel IS Development Specialist ScriptPro Direc

Re: PMCs

2003-02-27 Thread Leopold Toetsch
K Stol wrote: hello, $ ./pmc2c.pl FoobyNumber.pmc [ ... ] Then, in the parrot dir, I ran Configure.pl. You have to do a "make realclean" after such changes. You can check lib/Parrot/PMC.pm, to see if the changes went in. Regards, Klaas-Jan Stol leo

"targeting parrot" tutorial

2003-02-27 Thread Simon Wistow
I'm not sure if the tutorial has gone anywhere but I cam across this earlier which may be useful as a start. Something about using TreeCC would be nice as well. http://www.flipcode.com/tutorials/tut_scr01.shtml -- the test for truth is still quicker than the addition

Build infrastructure stuff we need

2003-02-27 Thread Dan Sugalski
Okay, here's a list of a few things we need in the build infrastructure. 1) A way to portably build a shared library 2) A way to portably probe libraries for functions 3) A way to portably probe for function parameter lists 4) A way to portably probe for type sizes The first is pretty straightforw

List datatype

2003-02-27 Thread David
Is there a List datatype for Parrot? I'm looking for something along the lines of what's in Python. Specifically, it should be able to do the following operations: - Append/Prepend elements - Insert element(s) at position - Remove element(s) at position - Return slice Like a PerlArray,

[perl #21399] [PATCH]Patch to fix compiler warnings in smallobject.c

2003-02-27 Thread via RT
# New Ticket Created by Steve Peters # Please include the string: [perl #21399] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # http://rt.perl.org/rt2/Ticket/Display.html?id=21399 > The attached patch fixes a compiler warning in smallobject.c. The #define UNITS_PER_AL

Re: "targeting parrot" tutorial

2003-02-27 Thread Gopal V
If memory serves me right, Simon Wistow wrote: > I'm not sure if the tutorial has gone anywhere but I cam across this > earlier which may be useful as a start. > > Something about using TreeCC would be nice as well. What would you need about TreeCC ?. I think Rhys has written a nice write up for

Re: [perl #21388] [PATCH]Patch for jit.c to stop compilier warnings

2003-02-27 Thread Nicholas Clark
On Thu, Feb 27, 2003 at 05:13:02AM +, Steve Peters wrote: > # New Ticket Created by Steve Peters > # Please include the string: [perl #21388] > # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. > # http://rt.perl.org/rt2/Ticket/Display.html?id=21388 > > > > The attached

Help regarding Perl Interpreter

2003-02-27 Thread Mandar S. Dalvi
hi , I needed some help regarding the memory consumption of perl Interpreter.It would be grateful if you could help me on that. I am running my application which makes use of the perl Interpreter to execute perl scripts.my Problem is after executing the script the memory gets released slowly by th

PMCs

2003-02-27 Thread K Stol
hello, I'm doing some research on PMCs, and thought it would be a good idea to try to create some new PMC type. (just for trying and get a grip of it) For that, I thought it would be easy to just copy the code from some existing PMC. I did the following: I copied all the text from PerlInt.pmc an

Re: [RFC] imcc calling conventions

2003-02-27 Thread Dan Sugalski
At 10:03 PM -0500 2/26/03, Benjamin Goldberg wrote: I would not have suggested such a thing. Tail call optomization in parrot should be about the same logical semantics as perl5's goto &subname (except maybe being faster). No it shouldn't. Tail call optimization is far more useful in the case of:

Re: [RFC] imcc calling conventions

2003-02-27 Thread Benjamin Goldberg
Dan Sugalski wrote: > > At 10:03 PM -0500 2/26/03, Benjamin Goldberg wrote: > >I would not have suggested such a thing. Tail call optomization in > >parrot should be about the same logical semantics as perl5's goto > >&subname (except maybe being faster). > > No it shouldn't. Tail call optimizat