"Tom Locke" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > p.s. (and at the risk of being controversial :) Why did Miguel de > Icaza say Parrot was "based on religion"? Was it realted to this > issue? Why is he wrong?
IIRC it is -- his take is that stack VM code provides useful information about variable lifetimes, which can help the JIT produce good code. If everything's jitted, then his contention is that bytecode opcount doesn't matter that much. I'm not going to stick my neck out and offer a technical opinion, but I'll just note that religion has been the driving force behind some great things in the past -- witness Europe's cathedrals ;). Oh, wait... we're supposed to be "the bazaar". /s
