At 10:28 AM 10/26/2001 -0500, Brian Wheeler wrote:
>On Fri, 2001-10-26 at 09:57, Sam Tregar wrote:
> > On Fri, 26 Oct 2001, Brent Dax wrote:
> >
> > > What if I want my compiler to be lazy? Do you have the right to punish
> > > me for my laziness by making me add constant folding to my optimizer (or
> > > perhaps making me *write* an optimizer just to do constant folding)?
> >
> > Actually, a really lazy compiler will never use constants with anything
> > other than "set"! See the scheme compiler posted here last week for a
> > good example.
> >
>
>I've got a dumb question, and its probably because I've not been paying
>attention, so I apologise in advance.
>
>How does a program access more than 32 variables simultaneously?
Right now Parrot can't access *any* variables, just registers. We'll get
variables soonish. (There are some details in parrot_assembly.pod)
If you want to fake it, there's always the stack, though I realize that's a
lousy cop-out answer. :)
Dan
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