Re: Does it cost anything to use a big pmc everywhere?

2005-07-30 Thread Leopold Toetsch
On Jul 29, 2005, at 18:58, Amir Karger wrote: So I think to avoid these problems I need to declare image at the top of every Z-code sub. My question is, is there any cost associated with always declaring this array holding 50-500K ints, other than having one P register always full? No not at

Does it cost anything to use a big pmc everywhere?

2005-07-29 Thread Amir Karger
[Accidentally posted to Google Groups first] I'm finally doing some work on Leo's PIR Z-machine interpreter. (I've added about 15 opcodes to the 10 or so he started with. Luckily, he did a lot of the infrastructure stuff that scared me as a PIR newbie. The tester I wrote while developing Plotz pas