This reduces the size of PerlScalars by another sizeof(void *).
- created a new ParrotIO class (only init and destroy yet) - remove newinterp: use "new Px, .ParrotInterpreter" instead - fixed a missing end in comp.t - minor changes to make it run
This feature can be toggled in include/parrot/pobj.h #define PMC_DATA_IN_EXT 1 (Its turned on currently)
Now we could create custom PMC_EXT structures depending on the class: Now we have e.g. for an Array or Hash: pmc->pmc_ext->list pmc->pmc_ext->hash
Better would be: pmc->pmc_ext_for_list or pmc->pmc_ext_for_hash
This would need (instead of the current pmc_ext_pool) a new unmanaged sized pool allocator, which should be quite simple by extending the current sized pool functions.
Comments welcome, leo