Luke Palmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Zellyn Hunter writes: >> So I take it the goal is to to teach parrot to understand z-machine >> opcodes, rather than simply writing a z-machine interpreter that >> runs on parrot, or rewriting inform to compile to parrot? > > I doubt it. I think a z-machine to parrot converter, making some of the > more complex ops sub calls or something, would be best. We need to work > with the z-machine bytecode directly, though, because many games are > distributed without source. > > And perhaps, once dynamic opcode loading is ready, those sub calls can > turn into real ops for speed. But that's not important at the moment: > the important thing (well, as important as z-machine can be :-) is to > get the translator working.
Turning them into real ops might not be the right thing to do in the presence of JIT of course.
