Re: pramgas as compile-time-only

[Bart Lateur]

On Tue, 08 Aug 2000 11:33:06 -0400, Dan Sugalski wrote:

>The problem perl will always run into is that our executable code counts as 
>data to CPUs, and lives in the D cache, along with all the data we work on. 
>Ripping through a few 100K strings'll kill any sort of benefits to keeping 
>the optree small

Time for subroutine threading, isntead of op threading?

That would definitely make the "compiled" code at least twice as big.

Er, I should shut up, because I haven't got a clue how Perl is (or would
be) implemented. I suspect it's similar to P-code.

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        Bart.