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

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

Re: This week's summary

2004-07-27 Thread Michele Dondi
On Mon, 26 Jul 2004, Brent 'Dax' Royal-Gordon wrote: > The Perl 6 Summarizer wrote: > > The infinite thread > > Pushing onto lazy lists continued to exercise the p6l crowd (or at > > least, a subset of it). Larry said that if someone wanted to hack > > surreal numbers into Perl 6.1 t

[perl #30847] [PATCH] icc fixes

2004-07-27 Thread via RT
# New Ticket Created by Adam Thomason # Please include the string: [perl #30847] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # http://rt.perl.org:80/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=30847 > Hello all, The first attached patch resolves some issues that have crept in since t