Re: internal structure

2002-04-11 Thread Jonathan E. Paton
> > How about the JIT engine then. > > JIT runs on bytecode, producing bytecode. > > > When does parrot use it? > > Before executing bytecode. > > > how well does it scale? ( has anyone done some benchmarking ) > > Don't ask me :P If you haven't already, then you'd > be best looking at the b

Re: internal structure

2002-04-11 Thread Jonathan E. Paton
> Where in the parrot code does the actual translation > from byte code to binary code occur? Parrot eq. an interpreter, all the byte codes are like commands to tell it what actions to take... it doesn't directly take byte codes and turn them into binary code. Conversion would be compiling, but