Re: data storage and representation when designing bytecode (and VM)

[Dan Sugalski]

At 03:47 PM 10/2/00 -0500, Jarkko Hietaniemi wrote:
> > Yep, that's something to investigate. I'd like to encode the bytecode
> > version at the head of any bytecode stream. There's also been a request 
> for
>
>This version info could quite naturally live in my proposed 'declaration
>block' or 'bytecode header'.

Works for me.

> > Also, transportable floats are rather problematic. It's one thing to 
> tag an
> > integer with size and endianness. It's rather another to deal with 
> floating
> > point formats. I have at least six available to me on my Alpha box, and 
> who
> > knows how many elsewhere. I'd rather not have to have code to deal with 
> all
>
>Ouch, too true...

I kinda like the ascii encoding scheme for floating point numbers, though I 
could see going for two different ones--binary and decimal, for folks who 
do have decimal floats.

                                        Dan

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