Q: about Parrot assembly code

2005-02-25 Thread Steve Coleman
Hi, I just came across Parrot the other day, so some of you might think I may have been living under a rock for a little while (and you might not be so wrong either - lol), so please excuse me if I am way out in left field on this topic, but I have a slightly upside down interest in Parrot asm

Re: Q: about Parrot assembly code

2005-02-25 Thread MrJoltCola
At 12:57 PM 2/25/2005, Steve Coleman wrote: constructs that could not be logically mapped from other CPU's into Parrot? Does Parrot assume/use many high level constructs not found in real processors? Some CPU translations, like from CISC to RISC, are clearly easier than the reverse, but other

Re: Q: about Parrot assembly code

2005-02-25 Thread Steve Coleman
MrJoltCola wrote: I doubt there is much that could not be mapped to Parrot, but Parrot does things that would be impossible to map directly back to a CPU. Currently I am only thinking of just a CPU X to Parrot asm translation, not the reverse, and this is just an attempt to get to a