Dewarnock attempt: Continuations Save

2003-06-09 Thread Matt Fowles
Piers Cawley wrote: The Continu(ation)ing Saga Jonathan Sillito posted a longish meditation on Parrot's new continuation passing calling conventions. He wondered if, now we have continuation passing, we really needed the various register stacks that were used in the old stack base

Re: Class instantiation and creation

2003-06-09 Thread Gopal V
If memory serves me right, Dan Sugalski wrote: > It's possible to just go ahead and do it *all* at runtime, and have > no compile time component at all--just a series of "newclass, > addparent, addattribute" ops, assuming those are the op names we go > with. Classes just get created at code init

Re: Make mine SuperSized....

2003-06-09 Thread Bryan C. Warnock
On Fri, 2003-06-06 at 21:47, Benjamin Goldberg wrote: > And for the former... well, we'd be wasting half of the memory that's in > our "32-bit" registers (since we'd still use 64 bits of storage for each > of our registers, even though we're "using" only 32 bits of it), but > there's no speed penal

Re: Make mine SuperSized....

2003-06-09 Thread Bryan C. Warnock
On Fri, 2003-06-06 at 16:34, Leopold Toetsch wrote: > > *) Integer constants are limited to 32 bit signed integers because > > they're inline. > > Yep. But this will cause problems with JIT/Prederef and multi threading, > and its already causing problems inside JIT on architectures with only > sma

Re: Make mine SuperSized....

2003-06-09 Thread Bryan C. Warnock
On Fri, 2003-06-06 at 15:12, Dan Sugalski wrote: > Our options, as I see them, are: > > 1) Make the I registers 64 bits > 2) Make some way to gang together I registers to make 64 bit things > 3) Have I registers switchable between 32 and 64 bit somehow > 4) Have separate 32 and 64 bit I registers

Re: Class instantiation and creation

2003-06-09 Thread Matt Fowles
Dan Sugalski wrote: The issue is metadata. How do you declare a class' inheritance hierarchy, its interfaces, its attributes, and its type? (At the very least, there's probably more) I can see the following . 1) A class subclasses a single parent. 2) A class subclasses a single parent and adds

[PATCH] Borland configuration

2003-06-09 Thread Andrew The
This should let parrot compile with the free command lind tools from Borland. Cheers -- Andrew The Index: config/init/hints/mswin32.pl === RCS file: /cvs/public/parrot/config/init/hints/mswin32.pl,v retrieving revision 1.10 diff -

Re: Current CVS broken?

2003-06-09 Thread Brian Wheeler
On Mon, 2003-06-09 at 15:23, Leopold Toetsch wrote: > Brian Wheeler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Its been a while since I've looked at parrot, so I did a "cvs update > > -d", "perl Configure.pl", "make clean", "make" and build failed: > > $ make realclean > > should help. We don't have all depe

Re: Class instantiation and creation

2003-06-09 Thread Mark A. Biggar
Dan Sugalski wrote: Well, we can make objects and we can call methods on objects (at least the interface is specified, if not actually implemented) but actually building classes to make objects out of is still unspecified. So, time to remedy that, after which I hope we can build at least a simpl

Re: Current CVS broken?

2003-06-09 Thread Leopold Toetsch
Brian Wheeler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Its been a while since I've looked at parrot, so I did a "cvs update > -d", "perl Configure.pl", "make clean", "make" and build failed: $ make realclean should help. We don't have all dependencies in generated files sorted out that far - sorry. > It can

Class instantiation and creation

2003-06-09 Thread Dan Sugalski
Well, we can make objects and we can call methods on objects (at least the interface is specified, if not actually implemented) but actually building classes to make objects out of is still unspecified. So, time to remedy that, after which I hope we can build at least a simple "ParrotObject" cl

Current CVS broken?

2003-06-09 Thread Brian Wheeler
Its been a while since I've looked at parrot, so I did a "cvs update -d", "perl Configure.pl", "make clean", "make" and build failed: $ make gcc -o parrot -L/usr/local/lib test_main.o blib/lib/libparrot.a -lnsl -ldl -lm -lpthread -lcrypt -lutil blib/lib/libparrot.a(jit_cpu.o)(.text+0x2ce0): In f

This week's summary

2003-06-09 Thread Piers Cawley
The Perl 6 Summary for the week ending 20030608 It's another Monday, it's another summary and I need to get this finished so I can starting getting the house in order before we head off to Boca Raton and points north and west on the long road to Portland, Oregon. Via Vermont. (I'm E