On Sat, Sep 15, 2001 at 04:17:34PM +0100, Nicholas Clark wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 14, 2001 at 06:11:35PM -0400, Dan Sugalski wrote:
> > What we're doing is making sure the common case, the bytecode on disk being
> > used by the platform that owns the drive, is as fast as possible. We're
> > also making sure that we don't make it so you can't trade bytecode files
> > around, nor that you can't mount the same filesystem with perl utility code
> > on your Solaris, HP-UX, Tru64, and x86 Linux systems simultaneously.
>
> Will we be able to make "FAT" binaries for these cases, so that 1 file
> can have more than 1 type of bytecode in it for the various platforms
> that will mount the common files?
It's pretty much up to the bytecode loader. If we design the format
right the loader can just keep skipping sections until it finds
headers that it feels comfortable with.
> Nicholas Clark
--
$jhi++; # http://www.iki.fi/jhi/
# There is this special biologist word we use for 'stable'.
# It is 'dead'. -- Jack Cohen
