Re: [PATCH] Macro fixes

2001-11-10 Thread Jeff
Erps, macro.t had a slight bug. The included version of macro.t fixes it. --Jeff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> #! perl -w use Parrot::Test tests => 7; output_is( <<'CODE', <

[PATCH] Macro fixes

2001-11-10 Thread Jeff
The following patch fixes the following bugs with macros: 1) Macros with zero parameters were disallowed 2) Local branches inside macros were not being given unique names on a per-invocation basis. This made it impossible to write the following code: --- cut here --- answer macro R eq R,42,$

Re: A serious stab at regexes

2001-11-10 Thread Angel Faus
Hi Brent, > > It just means you have to be more explicit. I consider that a Good > Thing--Perl 5's regular expressions are compact enough to be represented > like: but the internals to support them are an absolute jungle. I'd rather > have a few exposed ops than have a chunk of code like Perl 5

Re: [PATCHES] concat, read, substr, added 'ord' operator, and aSURPRISE

2001-11-10 Thread Alex Gough
On Sun, 11 Nov 2001, Alex Gough wrote: (but not quite enough...) > On Sat, 10 Nov 2001, Jeff wrote: > > > string.pasm patches the operators mentioned > > The other file, 'parrot.pasm', is a miniature Parrot compiler, written > > in Parrot. > > > > The patches in the string.diff file are requir

Re: [PATCHES] concat, read, substr, added 'ord' operator, and aSURPRISE

2001-11-10 Thread Alex Gough
On Sat, 10 Nov 2001, Jeff wrote: > string.pasm patches the operators mentioned > The other file, 'parrot.pasm', is a miniature Parrot compiler, written > in Parrot. > > The patches in the string.diff file are required to make this work. ook, cool, but string_length returns an INTVAL, not an int

[PATCHES] concat, read, substr, added 'ord' operator, and a SURPRISE

2001-11-10 Thread Jeff
string.pasm patches the operators mentioned The other file, 'parrot.pasm', is a miniature Parrot compiler, written in Parrot. The patches in the string.diff file are required to make this work. It's currently -very- limited, due to some issues that I found with macro processing and some problems

Re: JIT compilation

2001-11-10 Thread Dan Sugalski
At 07:13 PM 11/8/2001 -0500, Ken Fox wrote: >Dan Sugalski wrote: > > [native code regexps] There's a hugely good case for JITting. > >Yes, for JITing the regexp engine. That looks like a much easier >problem to solve than JITing all of Parrot. The problem there's no different than for the rest of

[PATCH] mops.pasm

2001-11-10 Thread Leon Brocard
You may think that this is a silly patch, but it's real. mops.pasm uses a very simple loop to figure out how many operations a second parrot can go. However, the loop it uses is inefficient: it does a "branch" *and* an "eq" every time around. Real code shouldn't do this: I try and explain this at

RE: Lexical implementation work

2001-11-10 Thread Dan Sugalski
At 01:39 PM 11/9/2001 -0800, Brent Dax wrote: >Dan Sugalski: ># At 12:39 AM 11/9/2001 -0500, Ken Fox wrote: ># >3. We've adopted a register machine architecture to ># >reduce push/pop stack traffic. Register save/load ># >traffic is similar, but not nearly as bad. ># > ># >Do we want t