VM, closures, continuation

2002-02-09 Thread raptor
I was just reading this : http://www.javalobby.com/clr.html and a question raised to me. Will Parrot have some optimisation (features) that will speed up closures continuation ? raptor [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: VM, closures, continuation

2002-02-09 Thread raptor
oops i forgot can u comment this page from the perspective of Parrot-VM, i.e. where we are better,worse compared to JVM CLR. I was just reading this : http://www.javalobby.com/clr.html and a question raised to me. Will Parrot have some optimisation (features) that will speed up closures

Re: VM, closures, continuation

2002-02-09 Thread Larry Wall
raptor writes: : I was just reading this : : : http://www.javalobby.com/clr.html : : and a question raised to me. Will Parrot have some optimisation : (features) that will speed up closures continuation ? Well, we understand closures pretty well already, since Perl 5 has 'em. Most of the

Globals

2002-02-09 Thread Melvin Smith
I know globals are still on the todo, but what is the plan for the operands of these opcodes? I see PMC examples, but will we also have versions of these for the native int, string and number Parrot types? -Melvin