On Tue, Oct 16, 2001 at 05:29:50PM -0400, James Mastros wrote: > On Tue, 16 Oct 2001, Dan Sugalski wrote: > > Ummm. Well. I think that you'll find this pretty much the case already (or > > planned, at least, as some of the bits aren't done yet) so I'm not sure > > that it'd really buy anything other than slower C code. > Wooho!
It gets you C code compiled to parrot bytecode that will run anywhere that has a parrot VM installed. Which may be more places (and more machines of a given architecture) than have a parrot VM and a C compiler, if my thinking is valid. But you have traded speed for portability. It seems a bit like the way Data::Dumper was supplied with perl and XS implementations, which let anyone with a perl binary but no C compiler run it, albeit at a speed penalty to anyone with a perl binary and a C compiler. Nicholas Clark
