Re: Using imcc as JIT optimizer

2003-02-26 Thread Phil Hassey
> > Although it might be nice if IMC were binary at this stage (for some > > feel-good-reason?). > > You mean, that a HL like perl6 should produce a binary equivalent to > ther current .imc file? Yep - this was discussed already, albeit there > was no discussion, how this should look like. And the

Re: Using imcc as JIT optimizer

2003-02-26 Thread Phil Hassey
[snip] > > Maybe we starting to get to the point of having imcc deliver parrot > > bytecode if you want to be portable, and something approaching native > > machine code if you want speed. > > IMHO yes, the normal options produce a plain PBC file, more or less > optimized at PASM level, the -Oj op

Re: Using imcc as JIT optimizer

2003-02-25 Thread Phil Hassey
On Tuesday 25 February 2003 08:51, Leopold Toetsch wrote: > Angel Faus wrote: > > Saturday 22 February 2003 16:28, Leopold Toetsch wrote: > > > > With your approach there are three levels of parrot "registers": > > > > - The first N registers, which in JIT will be mapped to physical > > registers.

multi-programming-language questions

2003-02-04 Thread Phil Hassey
List, I've been lurking here for about two months, after having read the summaries for several months previous. I'm interested in parrot because 1. I want it very badly for php / python / perl combinationability(?) 2. Just reading about the project is a fascinating learning experience. I've