Re: Running Bytecode?

2001-02-10 Thread Dan Sugalski
At 03:14 AM 2/10/2001 -0600, Vijaya Kumar C wrote: >Hai, > >How can we run System independent Bytecode...? In perl 6? The main perl executable will probably be able to deal with bytecode as a code source, but we've not decided that yet. For perl 5, you'll need to ask elsewhere. (There's a reas

Re: PDD 2, vtables

2001-02-10 Thread Dan Sugalski
At 08:47 AM 2/10/2001 -0200, Branden wrote: >Dan Sugalski wrote: > > >The string API should be sufficiently smart to be able to convert data >from > > >one encoding to another as it's more convenient. > > > > No, the vtable functions for the variables should know how to convert from > > and to per

Re: GC: what is better, reuse or avoid cloning?

2001-02-10 Thread Dan Sugalski
At 12:51 AM 2/10/2001 -0200, Branden wrote: >Back to the GC issue, I was wondering something. Okay, I snipped all of this. After reading it, I'm pretty sure it makes no sense at all. Branden, I'd recommend picking up a copy of _Garbage Collection_ and reading it. The ISBN's in the perl reading

Re: Running Bytecode?

2001-02-10 Thread Simon Cozens
On Sat, Feb 10, 2001 at 03:14:29AM -0600, Vijaya Kumar C wrote: > Beatie said thro his module we can generate system independent Bytecode. > How can i run that code ? perldoc ByteLoader > Also How to implement a compiler? For Perl 6, or just generally? Either way, that's a hell of a question to

Re: Another approach to vtables

2001-02-10 Thread Paolo Molaro
On 02/07/01 Edwin Steiner wrote: > [snip] > > I thought about it once more. Maybe I was confused by the *constant* NATIVE. > Are you suggesting a kind of multiple dispatch (first operand selects > the vtable, second operand selects the slot in the vtable)? > > So > $dest = $first + $second >

Running Bytecode?

2001-02-10 Thread Vijaya Kumar C
Hai, How can we run System independent Bytecode...? I need this answer asap. Beatie said thro his module we can generate system independent Bytecode. How can i run that code ? Also How to implement a compiler? vijay

Re: GC: what is better, reuse or avoid cloning?

2001-02-10 Thread Alan Burlison
Branden wrote: > Any suggestions? Yes, but none of them polite. You might do well to study the way perl5 handles these issues. Alan Burlison

Re: PDD 2, vtables

2001-02-10 Thread Branden
Dan Sugalski wrote: > >The string API should be sufficiently smart to be able to convert data from > >one encoding to another as it's more convenient. > > No, the vtable functions for the variables should know how to convert from > and to perl's preferred string representations, and can do whateve

Re: GC: what is better, reuse or avoid cloning?

2001-02-10 Thread Filipe Brandenburger
Buddha M Buck wrote: > > > I see two ways of doing this: one is allowing a string value to be shared by > > > two or more variables, and the other one not. > > > > Why would you want to share the string value? Why did you assign the > > value of $foo to $bar if you really wanted to: > > > >$