On Tue, Oct 03, 2000 at 02:37:13PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> At 12:27 PM 10/3/00 -0500, Jarkko Hietaniemi wrote:
> >Serializing an optree is rather tricky especially if one wants to
> >deserialize it on a different platform. Because of icky things like
> >structure padding one effectively really needs to go the way of
> >*byte*codes which makes for one ssslllooowww VM.
>
> Nah, it doesn't need to be that slow. There are a number of things we can
> do to speed it up a bunch over the current way of doing things (which is
> suboptimal). I don't see any reason why we shouldn't be able to
> significantly speed up program loading, especially if we have async I/O
> available.
Can someone explain why we can't have a non-portable "byte-code" or
"precompiled representation" in addition to a portable byte-code?
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