On 3/12/07, Mike Stump <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
That said, we all realize we are _not_ asking Doug to please re-implement the C++ frontend to our design to fix this issue. I'd be against that.
Thank you :)
I'm hoping that might allow us to reduce the pressure enough so that we can fit back down into 8 bits, so as to avoid the memory size increase and (the unmeasured) slowdowns that would result. Objective- C/C++ would slow down, but, faced with the slowdown that would be certain if we didn't do this, I don't see how we could not. The benefit, all other languages would not, which is still important to us. The good news, in Objective-C 2.0, we only need 1 more tree code. If we did do this, we'd have to put in a mandate, no more new tree codes (unless you rewrite the Objective or C++ FE to stop using a code).
That's the trick... I don't see how we're going to get away with not adding some more tree codes to the C++ FE to support C++0x features. I'll see if I can implement the 9-bit solution, to see what the actual performance impact is. Cheers, Doug
