> On Wed, Nov 07, 2001 at 06:46:20PM -0500, Ken Fox wrote:
> >
> > JITs help when the VM is focused on lots of small instructions
> > with well-known, static semantics. Perl's use of Parrot is going
> > to be focused almost completely on PMC vtable ops. A JIT has
> > no advantage over a threaded interpreter.
>
> Unless we can get Perl to use the other features of Parrot outside
> the scope of the PMC vtable ops, Parrot won't give you any real
> benefits other than a clean rewrite of the Perl internals to
> look more like Ruby :)
That would be great... I recently had to write a perl extension and
the same for ruby, writing the ruby version after the perl was such
a joy I almost wept (note the almost I'm not that desperate)
Benoit
