On Tue, Feb 25, 2003 at 11:58:41PM +0100, Leopold Toetsch wrote: > Nicholas Clark wrote:
[thanks for the explanation] > > And is this all premature optimisation, give that we haven't got objects, > > exceptions, IO or a Z-code interpreter yet? > And yes: We don't have exceptions and threads yet. The other items, > don't matter (IMHO). Well, I think that proper IO would be useful. But I don't think it affects the innards of the execution system greatly - is there any reason why parrot (or at least PBC) can't conceptually treat in the same way that C treats IO - just another standard library? "Z-code interpreter" is obfuscated shorthand for "dynamic opcode libraries" and "reading foreign bytecode". I regard the first as important, the second as "would be nice". I think Dan rates "reading foreign bytecode" more important than I do. Nicholas Clark
