Some things I wonder if you're aware of.

2001-02-22 Thread Karl M. Hegbloom
wfish) and Guile scheme? I wonder if one of those VM's could be used (as is or with collaborative modifications) as a target for Perl6? -- mailto: (Karl M. Hegbloom) [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.microsharp.com phone://USA/WA/360-260-2066

Re: C Garbage collector

2001-02-26 Thread Karl M. Hegbloom
Do you folks know anything about the garbage collector in rScheme http://www.rscheme.org/>? They say it's got a "real time generational" garbage collector. It must be worth looking over. -- mailto: (Karl M. Hegbloom) [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.microsharp.com phone://USA/WA/360-260-2066

Re: Idea for safe signal handling by a byte code interpreter

2001-03-22 Thread Karl M. Hegbloom
mber the signal Hong> context is not useful outside signal handler. I don't mean "the stack", but "a stack"; one created just for this purpose. I am a beginner, and likely very naive. -- mailto: (Karl M. Hegbloom) [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.microsharp.com phone://USA/WA/360-260-2066

Idea for safe signal handling by a byte code interpreter

2001-03-22 Thread Karl M. Hegbloom
at struct on a stack... When, in your language, you do the equivalent of Perl: $SIG{' (lambda (v) (do-something-with v))) (else 'whatever)) -- mailto: (Karl M. Hegbloom) [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.microsharp.com phone://USA/WA/360-260-2066

Re: Parrot Glossary - COW

2002-07-08 Thread Karl M. Hegbloom
FYI; the Guile schemers have had several discussions that may be of interest to the Parrot personnel regarding copy on write strings and shared substrings. Perhaps they thought of something you have not? I imagine they must have a list archive you can find. -- As any limb well and duly exercis

Scheme "cond" and => (lambda ...

2002-12-25 Thread Karl M. Hegbloom
[I'm not on the list; please CC.] In Scheme, I can say: (cond ((predicate-expression) => (lambda (r) ...)) (...)) ... and the value returned by (predicate-expression) is passed as an argument to the lambda expression in the rhs. Sometimes this is very handy, since then I don't have to call on

Forth engine techniques for faster byte code interpreter. (indirect threaded interpreter)

2002-02-14 Thread Karl M. Hegbloom
some time to research, IMHO, so put your googles on guile's goops! (and click on that headlamp in their mailing list archives also.) ... and I've heard that "rscheme" has a real time generational garbage collector of some kind. I wonder if it's readable enough to use as a

Should I post stuff like this?

2002-02-14 Thread Karl M. Hegbloom
Is this annoying, or helpful? This is one thing that turned up in a google search for "librep forth engine". http://www.technomagi.com/links/design.html> -- mailto: (Karl M. Hegbloom) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Free the Software http://www.debian.org/social_contract http://www.m