Re: blocks and subplans again

2003-08-26 Thread Adrian Howard
On Thursday, August 21, 2003, at 08:17 pm, Michael G Schwern wrote: On Thu, Aug 21, 2003 at 02:38:03PM +0100, Fergal Daly wrote: [snip] You could allow extensions at any time but then you lose the ability to know if you ran 4 + 2 tests or 5 + 1, Not if you introduce an end tag (though I'd rather

Re: blocks and subplans again

2003-08-26 Thread Adrian Howard
On Thursday, August 21, 2003, at 11:50 pm, Michael G Schwern wrote: On Thu, Aug 21, 2003 at 10:19:35PM +0100, Fergal Daly wrote: [snip] Also you can allocate a sub block to each thread and you don't have to worry about it's output getting confused with the output of any other thread because ever

Re: [RfC] constant PMCs and classes

2003-08-26 Thread Leopold Toetsch
Leopold Toetsch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [ snip ] > * const_string_from_cstring - return cached constant string or create one > * const_key_new_cstring - return cached PMC or create a constant PMC Some more thoughts WRT this issue: - PerlHash isn't suitable for storing/lookup these STRINGs/Key

Re: Weak References?

2003-08-26 Thread Piers Cawley
Benjamin Goldberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> this is only useful if a hashlookup is fast compared with >> string_make. > > Well, it might be. Hashing can be quite fast, ya know. > > Here's a better idea, one you'll have more difficulty arguing with -- > imagine a debugger, written in parrot. >

NEWBIE Questions about bytecode emitting and JIT Compiling and an OO library

2003-08-26 Thread James Michael DuPont
Dear fellow hackers, First of all, I would like to say that I hope that you dont take offence at my silly questions and crazy ideas! ;) I have been looking in the amazing work that you have been doing with parrot and the work that Michal Wallace has been doing with the Pirate, the following quest

The Perl 6 Summary

2003-08-26 Thread Piers Cawley
The Perl 6 Summary for the week ending 20030824 Another week, another Perl 6 summary. I'm running late writing this and I don't care because I spent the bank holiday weekend at a folk festival and didn't get back 'til Monday evening. Predictably enough, we'll start with the shenani

Re: NEWBIE Questions about bytecode emitting and JIT Compiling and an OO library

2003-08-26 Thread Leopold Toetsch
James Michael Dupont <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dear fellow hackers, > First of all, I would like to say that I hope that you dont take > offence at my silly questions and crazy ideas! ;) There are no silly questions, only silly answers and crazy ideas are the motor of development - trying to a

Re: [RfC] constant PMCs and classes

2003-08-26 Thread Benjamin Goldberg
Juergen Boemmels wrote: > Leopold Toetsch wrotes: > > > We currently have constant Key and Sub PMCs both created from the > > packfile at load time. They live in the constant_table pointing to a > > constant PMC pool. But we need more. > > > > We have allover the core code like this: > > > >st