Question regarding JIT

2005-05-10 Thread Millsa Erlas
I heard that Parrot has a JIT compiler. If I understand this correctly, does this mean Parrot bytecode is converted to native machine hardware code before execution? If so, it is a good idea. JIT is great, however, will it still be possible to run the Parrot bytecode on the interpretor? Also,

Re: Regarding status of Parrot and pure perl Perl6 compiler

2005-04-06 Thread Millsa Erlas
Nicholas Clark wrote: On 9 Mar 2005, at 23:34, Millsa Erlas wrote: Also, what is the status of Ponie and providing complete interoperability between Perl 5 language and documented XS support and Parrot and Perl 6? I believe that assuring For various internal and external reasons work has been

Re: Pugs to become a Perl6 -> Parrot AST/IMC compiler.

2005-04-01 Thread Millsa Erlas
Autrijus Tang wrote: After a IRC meeting with Leo, I've outlined my roadmap of how to make the three compiler backends in Pugs to work in concert to provide a much faster evaluator: http://use.perl.org/~autrijus/journal/23890 Note that existing code in the Eval monad need not be rewritten; also

Re: Regarding status of Parrot and pure perl Perl6 compiler

2005-03-11 Thread Millsa Erlas
Markus Laire wrote: I've been following the development of pugs (http://pugscode.org/), so I can give a short answer based on that. While pugs is currently written in Haskell, roadmap does mention the idea to eventually port pugs to perl6 if needed, which would give us a Perl 6 compiler writte

Regarding status of Parrot and pure perl Perl6 compiler

2005-03-09 Thread Millsa Erlas
What is the current status of the development of the Parrot and the Perl 6 compiler written in Perl? I hope that producing a Perl 6 compiler written in Perl 6 and the Parrot VM is still a high priority and is being actively developed as the premier compiler and VM for the Perl 6 language. A Per