Re: [PATCH] Stop win32 popping up dialogs on segfault

2002-02-10 Thread Nick Ing-Simmons
Michael G Schwern [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Fri, Feb 08, 2002 at 07:19:26PM +0100, Mattia Barbon wrote: Content-Description: Mail message body The following patch adds a Parrot_nosegfault() function to win32.c; after it is called, a segmentation fault will print This process received a

Re: Globals

2002-02-10 Thread Dan Sugalski
At 12:54 AM -0500 2/10/02, Melvin Smith wrote: 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? Nope, I'm not planning on that. We can add

Re: [PATCH] Stop win32 popping up dialogs on segfault

2002-02-10 Thread Mattia Barbon
Michael G Schwern [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Fri, Feb 08, 2002 at 07:19:26PM +0100, Mattia Barbon wrote: Content-Description: Mail message body The following patch adds a Parrot_nosegfault() function to win32.c; after it is called, a segmentation fault will print This process received

Re: VM, closures, continuation

2002-02-10 Thread Dan Sugalski
At 1:37 AM +0200 2/9/02, raptor wrote: 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 ? Closures are a very fundamental thing in perl, and they've got to be fast.

Re: VM, closures, continuation

2002-02-10 Thread Nicholas Clark
On Sun, Feb 10, 2002 at 12:08:27PM -0500, Dan Sugalski wrote: The one downside to having continuations is it makes optimizing away variables, even temp ones, a little tough--on switch to any code that might create a continuation we need to flush out from registers to a holding area, and on

Re: VM, closures, continuation

2002-02-10 Thread Dan Sugalski
At 6:59 PM + 2/10/02, Nicholas Clark wrote: On Sun, Feb 10, 2002 at 12:08:27PM -0500, Dan Sugalski wrote: The one downside to having continuations is it makes optimizing away variables, even temp ones, a little tough--on switch to any code that might create a continuation we need to

Re: Parrot is very (intentionally) broken

2002-02-10 Thread Jeff G
Jeff G wrote: Simon Cozens wrote: I've just committed some changes after which Parrot will not compile. This is quite deliberate. Basically, I'm trying to get the keyed stuff working the way we want, and that requires some painful changes to the source. The upshot is: All the