On Wed, Nov 17, 2004 at 10:35:47PM +0000, Nicholas Clark wrote: > On Wed, Nov 17, 2004 at 02:47:09PM -0700, Patrick R. Michaud wrote: > > > BTW, it may be very possible for me to write the p6ge generator so > > that it can be switched between the PIR and bsr/ret calling conventions, > > so we don't need to resolve this entirely now. And we could then benchmark > > the two against each other. > > Keeping the code that flexible would be very interesting. If you can > achieve this without much extra pain, I think that it would be worth it.
Believe it or not, I think it is less pain to do it this way (keeping the conventions switchable) -- it certainly cleans up the generator code a bit. We'll see how it works out. :-) Pm