At 7:45 PM -0400 6/13/02, Melvin Smith wrote:
>I do not like the fact that we have to use keyed access at a low level
>to accomplish this, so I hope we consider adding random access
>to stacks.
It's on the list--it's just never gotten implemented. Time to fix
that, I think. We've added (or are working on adding) real integer
access to arrays without keys, but that's not in, and this will
likely be faster.
>If you haven't looked at IMCC, we've written a complete
>register allocator that you can map symbolic variables to. This means
>that anyone that wishes to write a compiler for Parrot can just
>emit code for IMCC and let it handle the dirty work of VM register
>allocation, spillage, peephole optimization, constant expression
>evaluation, etc.
And Yay, Melvin! (And Angel!)
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