On Oct 27, 2008, at 3:07 AM, Carl Mäsak wrote:
Chris (>):
How safe is it today to pre-compile Rakudo code to PIR and expect
that to
behave identically to as if I compiled from .pm at runtime? I
believe PCT
is just generating PIR anyway, so my initial guess is that there
should be
no differences. Are there any gotchas, like compile-time
dependency checks,
that I should look out for?
Precompilation to PIR currently doesn't work in the November project
-- the difficulties occur when trying to call methods in the
precompiled module. Right now our Makefile protests if someone tries
to compile the modules to PIR.
I think there is an rt ticket for this, but my attempts to dig it up
fail. Maybe someone else is more lucky.
// Carl
Good to know. My tests were passing as PIR-compiled, but I only
tested my grammar so far before I got roadblocked. I'll keep testing
with and without PIR as time permits.
Thanks!
Chris
