On Tue, Oct 31, 2006 at 10:43:11PM -0800, Allison Randal wrote: > Leopold Toetsch wrote: > > > >We have basically the problem that classes are only constructed at > >runtime, which has 2 negative impacts: associating the vtable info with > >the class needs some helper storage like the props and namespaces can only > >be vaguely attached to the correct class at runtime too. > > As a virtual machine for dynamic languages, one of the core requirements > is that it has to be able to construct a class completely at runtime. We > may add compile-time construction of classes at some point as an > optimization, but we'll never eliminate runtime construction. That
When serialising data structures, is parrot going to need to serialise any anonymous or otherwise run time generated classes? If so, isn't this mechanism going to be capable of achieving "compile time" class generation? Nicholas Clark
