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

[Nicholas Clark]

On Tue, Oct 03, 2000 at 02:38:01PM -0400, Dan Sugalski wrote:
> At 06:42 PM 10/3/00 +0100, Nicholas Clark wrote:
> >But I seem to remember someone who should know (Tom Christiansen?) at
> >YAPC::Europe being confident that bytecode would never be faster.
> 
> Really? I think we shall have to prove him wrong. (And not by slowing down 
> the parsing, either--that's cheating...)

I had some ideas about making bytecode (Well the current bytecode) denser
(certainly in the sense of more compact, if not some of the other
connotations) but there's still far too much I don't understand about the
current backend (and via its tentacles, everything as far as the op tree)
and I keep finding ways to break it. (which I try to fix before getting
any further with playing). I suspect denser==slower.

Nicholas Clark