Re: .ops metadata [was: Re: JIT me some speed!]

2001-12-26 Thread Gregor N. Purdy
Jason -- > Making the distinction between the three cases enables a number of > optimizations of native code based on analysing data flow. 'in' would be good > as an implicit default, as many PMC opcodes will not overwrite any PMC > registers. > > An optimizing native code generator (whether st

Re: Request for comments

2001-12-26 Thread Benjamin Stuhl
--- Dan Sugalski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > At 08:03 PM 12/18/2001 -0800, Benjamin Stuhl wrote: > >--- Melvin Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > 3) Perl IO has conditional compilation for using > stdio. > > > Dan has said no > > > STDIO > > > but are we going to abandon conditional supp

Re: .ops metadata [was: Re: JIT me some speed!]

2001-12-26 Thread Jason Gloudon
On Mon, Dec 24, 2001 at 02:11:15PM -0500, Gregor N. Purdy wrote: > Or, do we really need to have the three-way in/out/inout tagset? > > inline op set(out i, in i|ic) { > $1 = $2; > } Making the distinction between the three cases enables a number of optimizations of native code based on

Quick internals implementation note

2001-12-26 Thread Dan Sugalski
Folks, To make life a bit easier for the JIT, and to speed things up in the general case, we're changing the way the registers are implemented a bit. Instead of floating on top of the register file the way they are now, the registers will be part of the interpreter structure. This means we onl

Re: core_ops.pod in CVS

2001-12-26 Thread Dan Sugalski
At 08:42 AM 12/26/2001 -0800, Boris Tschirschwitz wrote: >On Wed, 26 Dec 2001, Jason Gloudon wrote: > > > branch is a relative branch, look at the code generated for it: > > > > static opcode_t * > > Parrot_branch_ic (opcode_t cur_opcode[], struct Parrot_Interp * > interpreter) { > > return cur

Re: .ops metadata [was: Re: JIT me some speed!]

2001-12-26 Thread Michael Fischer
On Mon, Dec 24, Gregor N. Purdy wrote: > Nicholas -- > > > Parrot_set_i_i(in,out): \x8b \x0d &IR2 \x89 \x0d &IR1 > > I'm tempted to push the specification of this information all the way > back to the syntax of .ops files, since the code that lives there > should behave the same wrt read/write o

Re: PDD4 and BIGNUM/s

2001-12-26 Thread Dan Sugalski
At 03:19 AM 12/26/2001 -0800, Boris Tschirschwitz wrote: >Hi. >When I am reading about Perl internal datatypes I wonder if they are going >to be Parrot internal types, especially the BIGINTs and BIGNUMs. > >Will I be able to do someting like > mov I3,45e3 >or are the BIGs going to be imple

Re: JIT me some speed!

2001-12-26 Thread Nicholas Clark
On Fri, Dec 21, 2001 at 12:03:51AM +, Tom Hughes wrote: > In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Dan Sugalski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > To run a program with the JIT, pass test_parrot the -j flag and watch it > > scream. Well, scream if you're on x86 Linux or BSD (I get a speedup o

Re: core_ops.pod in CVS

2001-12-26 Thread Boris Tschirschwitz
On Wed, 26 Dec 2001, Jason Gloudon wrote: > branch is a relative branch, look at the code generated for it: > > static opcode_t * > Parrot_branch_ic (opcode_t cur_opcode[], struct Parrot_Interp * interpreter) { > return cur_opcode + cur_opcode[1]; > } Yes, I see. In parrot assmebly it looks li

RE: core_ops.pod in CVS

2001-12-26 Thread Brent Dax
Boris Tschirschwitz: # Why is parrot/docs/core_ops.pod not under version control? # # For example we should change the explanation under # =item B(ic) to # # Branch to the location specified by $1 # # since that's what it does. Because core_ops.pod is generated automatically from core.ops. --

core_ops.pod in CVS

2001-12-26 Thread Boris Tschirschwitz
Why is parrot/docs/core_ops.pod not under version control? For example we should change the explanation under =item B(ic) to Branch to the location specified by $1 since that's what it does. Boris.

Re: PDD4 and BIGNUM/s

2001-12-26 Thread Boris Tschirschwitz
> Will I be able to do someting like > mov I3,45e3 > or are the BIGs going to be implemented as PMCs? Ok, a look at he actual interpreter shows that this is possible, but it should really be set I3,45e3 Then I really believe that the vector thing would be worthwhile. Is there an ar

PDD4 and BIGNUM/s

2001-12-26 Thread Boris Tschirschwitz
Hi. When I am reading about Perl internal datatypes I wonder if they are going to be Parrot internal types, especially the BIGINTs and BIGNUMs. Will I be able to do someting like mov I3,45e3 or are the BIGs going to be implemented as PMCs? I ask because I have the following idea: I think