Opcode Dispatch

2001-07-29 Thread Bryan C . Warnock
Not that this is the most scientific testing in the world, but I did write a couple variations of an opcode dispatch loop just to see how they compare. Of course, I violated rule number one of writing fast code - I didn't run it on a slow machine. Shame on me. Given an 80K opcode stream consi

Re: Modules, Versioning, and Beyond

2001-07-29 Thread John Siracusa
On 7/29/01 12:48 PM, Bryan C. Warnock wrote: > Let's just arbitrarily assume that the > major number of the version is equivalent to that version of the API. > (In other words, Foo 1.05 gives us a promise that it uses the same API > as 1.02 and 1.08. Foo 2.01 would use a different (however slight

Modules, Versioning, and Beyond

2001-07-29 Thread Bryan C . Warnock
I've been contemplating this off and on for a while now, but the lack of a Grand Unified Theory of Module Versioning has always led me to shelve whatever thoughts I may have had to the back of my mind - or to /dev/null. There was a lot of peripheral discussion, however, here at TPC, and a lot of