Nicholas Clark wrote:
> But there do seem already to be arguably duplicate 2 operand versions of
> many ops. Hence I was surprised at the lack of consistency.
Right. I suspect that as people get more experience with the new
Perl 6 compiler the 2 operand ops will go away (or vice versa).
At the v
On Sat, Aug 03, 2002 at 10:51:41AM -0400, Ken Fox wrote:
> Nicholas Clark wrote:
> >I can write more a efficient implementation of abs_i ... things will
> >go slightly faster
>
> The law of diminishing returns is broken for a VM. Eventually you
> reach a point where adding more ops actually decre
On Sat, Aug 03, 2002 at 11:22:16AM +0100, Nicholas Clark wrote:
> How come there is abs_i_i to put the absolute value of $2 into $1, but there's
> no abs_i to convert $1 to absolute?
>
> I can write more a efficient implementation of abs_i, because I don't need to
> store the value back if it's a
Nicholas Clark wrote:
> I can write more a efficient implementation of abs_i ... things will
> go slightly faster
The law of diminishing returns is broken for a VM. Eventually you
reach a point where adding more ops actually decreases total
performance. Instead of the change in performance tendin
