Re: Proof of concept - hack_42 (was: the whole and everything)

2004-07-27 Thread Luke Palmer
Leopold Toetsch writes: > $ time parrot -j -Oc c.imc > in main > 20 > > real0m1.069s > user0m0.910s > sys 0m0.020s > > $ time parrot -C ch.imc > in main > 20 > > real0m0.356s > user0m0.250s > sys 0m0.000s > > I think that a factor 3 improvement in function call s

Proof of concept - hack_42 (was: the whole and everything)

2004-07-27 Thread Leopold Toetsch
Leopold Toetsch wrote: [ proposal about a new function calling scheme ] Attached is a minimal patch that shows the concept of the proposed function calling scheme. * works only with "function-less" run-cores [1] * the 2 new opcodes "mycall" and "return" abuse the _pointer_keyed vtable slots of su