Re: reconfiguring configure

2005-11-10 Thread Simon Wistow
On Wed, Nov 09, 2005 at 05:57:22PM -1000, Joshua Hoblitt said: I've taken a look at using Module::Pluggable to register configure steps. The simplest way to do this is to let Module::Pluggable search through the ./config directory. This requires renaming all of the .pl configure files to .pm

Erlang in Python

2004-08-26 Thread Simon Wistow
Noticed this on another list and figured it might be a p6i kind of thing ... Fine-grained concurrency primitives from Erlang now available in Python. Haven't used Erlang myself, though I've read the papers. Looks kind of like a bastard offspring of Linda and more explicit sync constructions /

Re: Parrot experiences log

2004-08-20 Thread Simon Wistow
On Fri, Aug 20, 2004 at 08:38:21AM -0400, Matt Diephouse said: That's me. I don't think I ever announced this to the list though. Any newbie lurkers can check it out: http://matt.diephouse.com/parrot The rest of the bytecode is made up of objects. Objects are preceeded by a char denoting their

Re: threads.t on NetBSD

2004-03-31 Thread Simon Wistow
On Wed, Mar 31, 2004 at 01:54:35PM +0200, Leopold Toetsch said: Probably select have been called without timeout. Yes that's true. But the event thread wakes up the io_thread (s. stop_io_thread). This seems to fail with PTH as it doesn't preempt. Looking at the code, this seems to happen,

Re: GCC for PARROT (GCC Compiling itself to PARROT, then compilin g all supported languages to PARROT from PARROT)?!?!

2004-03-22 Thread Simon Wistow
On Mon, Mar 22, 2004 at 09:54:56AM -0500, Butler, Gerald said: The important point is that the starting language must have semantics which treat variables, object, etc. as abstract entities to be manipulated not *memory locations* to be accessed arbitrarily. Then, the parse stage must spit out

Coroutines, continuation passing style and interesting tail recursion proposal

2003-05-29 Thread Simon Wistow
Very possibly old and useless but in the grand tradition of piping up with ideas which may or may not be useful - http://home.pipeline.com/~hbaker1/CheneyMTA.html being a paper on filling the C stack completely thus saving on some GC amongst other things. The paper explains it much better.

targeting parrot tutorial

2003-02-27 Thread Simon Wistow
I'm not sure if the tutorial has gone anywhere but I cam across this earlier which may be useful as a start. Something about using TreeCC would be nice as well. http://www.flipcode.com/tutorials/tut_scr01.shtml -- the test for truth is still quicker than the addition

Re: Compiling to Parrot

2003-01-21 Thread Simon Wistow
On Tue, Jan 21, 2003 at 12:14:29PM +0100, K Stol said: PHP is especially used in web pages. Would there be any advantage to have a PHP-Parrot compiler? Depends what you mean by 'advantage'. Currently, as far as I know, PHP runs on a virtual machine, just like Perl so it's a good candidate for

Re: pretty pictures

2003-01-17 Thread Simon Wistow
On Thu, Jan 16, 2003 at 11:25:34AM -0800, Tupshin Harper said: The ability to download autodia off of the primary site and the mirror is unfortunately broken. Fwd-d to the author and apparently it's fixed now. Simon

Re: the getting started guide

2002-10-10 Thread Simon Wistow
On Wed, Oct 09, 2002 at 07:17:01PM -0400, Dan Sugalski said: I'll see about getting some of the internal structures diagrammed better, which is the only place things are a little dodgy, but that's otherwise fine. [accidentally sent to Robert Spier ony earlier] Autodia

Re: Parrot contribution - #parrot stream parser.

2002-07-14 Thread Simon Wistow
On Sat, Jul 13, 2002 at 05:00:42PM -0400, Jim Cromie said: can we could invent a super-lightweight markup language that #parrot-eers would type into the stream to put meta-info into it ? Might it be worth using something like http://usefulinc.com/chump/ (as seen in use at

Re: Parrot contribution - #parrot stream parser.

2002-07-14 Thread Simon Wistow
On Sun, Jul 14, 2002 at 08:54:30PM +0300, Iacob Alin said: The guys from London.pm wrote Scribot (http://www.scribot.com/) wich could be more useful... Yeah I know - Leon wrote the original and then I patched it :) http://thegestalt.org/simon/perl/scribot2.html Leon's done another revision