Re: Parrot Z-machine

2003-09-02 Thread Zellyn Hunter
On Tuesday 02 September 2003 13:09, Amir Karger wrote: > A couple more questions on the coding front: > > (1) Even though it's supposed to be "native" Parrot support, I'm still > allowed to write in PIR, right? Because that'll be translated to pasm > and thereby be native. > > (2) WinFrotz, one of

Re: Dates and Times

2004-03-03 Thread Zellyn Hunter
For those of you not up to speed on how much date and time confusion there is, I remember this article by Dave Rolsky as being interesting: http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2003/03/13/datetime.html

Re: Optimizations for Objects

2004-03-17 Thread Zellyn Hunter
Might be worth looking at Smalltalk papers too - they've been doing objects forever. If I remember correctly, some smalltalks have an interesting form of caching: they call the last thing the call resolved to, and redispatch as necessary. So rather than looking things up before every call, you