I18N Paper

2000-08-19 Thread Simon Cozens
http://turnbull.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp/Tools/I18N/LJ-I18N.html is a fine paper on the need for and challenges involved in I18N and L10N support. -- \let\l\let\l\d\def\l\a\active\l~\catcode~`?\a~`;\a\d;{~`};!\a\d!{?;~}\l?\the;# !;]!\l]\l;\.!;,!;\%!;=!]=\d],\expandafter;[!][{=%{\message[};\$!=${\uccode`

Re: Do threads support SMP?

2000-08-19 Thread Chaim Frenkel
This belongs on -internals. The threading model will probably be identical for all ports. And my suspicion is that -internals will use whatever the platform provides. I don't think we want to write a portable threading capability. > "SWM" == Steven W McDougall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

Re: RFC 130 (v1) Transaction-enabled variables for Perl6

2000-08-19 Thread dLux
/--- On Fri, Aug 18, 2000 at 06:19:43PM -0400, Chaim Frenkel wrote: | I don't think you should even attempt to version/transaction | protect | a tied variable. Anything that leaves the memory or could leave | the | memory (e.g. socket write) should probably not be versioned. | | Unles

Re: Vtable speed worry

2000-08-19 Thread Ken Fox
Simon Cozens wrote: > Currently, SvPVX(foo) requires one lookup No lookups at all -- SvPVX(foo) is just a pointer offset, i.e. an add. > with a vtable, it would necessitate two, (One to find the functino in "foo", > and then the functino must find the data in "foo") It would probably work somet

Re: ANNOUNCE: Inline 0.23 (Mix Perl and C w/o XS)

2000-08-19 Thread Brian Ingerson
Sam Tregar wrote: > > On Fri, 18 Aug 2000, Graham Barr wrote: > > So it is a security issue then as it needs somewhere to cache these > > object files, and anyone must be able to do it. > > The place it stores its objects is configurable, so it's only a security > problem if you make it one! I'