Re: Parrot is very (intentionally) broken

2002-02-10 Thread Jeff G
Jeff G wrote: > > Simon Cozens wrote: > > > > I've just committed some changes after which Parrot will not compile. > > This is quite deliberate. Basically, I'm trying to get the keyed stuff > > working the way we want, and that requires some painful changes to the > > source. The upshot is: > >

Re: VM, closures, continuation

2002-02-10 Thread Dan Sugalski
At 6:59 PM + 2/10/02, Nicholas Clark wrote: >On Sun, Feb 10, 2002 at 12:08:27PM -0500, Dan Sugalski wrote: >> The one downside to having continuations is it makes optimizing away >> variables, even temp ones, a little tough--on switch to any code that >> might create a continuation we need

Re: VM, closures, continuation

2002-02-10 Thread Nicholas Clark
On Sun, Feb 10, 2002 at 12:08:27PM -0500, Dan Sugalski wrote: > The one downside to having continuations is it makes optimizing away > variables, even temp ones, a little tough--on switch to any code that > might create a continuation we need to flush out from registers to a > holding area, and

Re: VM, closures, continuation

2002-02-10 Thread Dan Sugalski
At 1:37 AM +0200 2/9/02, raptor wrote: >I was just reading this : > >http://www.javalobby.com/clr.html > >and a question raised to me. Will Parrot have some optimisation >(features) that will speed up closures & continuation ? Closures are a very fundamental thing in perl, and they've got to be

Re: [PATCH] Stop win32 popping up dialogs on segfault

2002-02-10 Thread Mattia Barbon
> Michael G Schwern <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >On Fri, Feb 08, 2002 at 07:19:26PM +0100, Mattia Barbon wrote: > >Content-Description: Mail message body > >> The following patch adds a Parrot_nosegfault() function > >> to win32.c; after it is called, a segmentation fault will print > >> "This p

Re: Globals

2002-02-10 Thread Dan Sugalski
At 12:54 AM -0500 2/10/02, Melvin Smith wrote: >I know globals are still on the todo, but what is the plan for the >operands of these opcodes? I see PMC examples, but will >we also have versions of these for the native int, string and number >Parrot types? Nope, I'm not planning on that. We can a

Re: [PATCH] Stop win32 popping up dialogs on segfault

2002-02-10 Thread Nick Ing-Simmons
Michael G Schwern <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >On Fri, Feb 08, 2002 at 07:19:26PM +0100, Mattia Barbon wrote: >Content-Description: Mail message body >> The following patch adds a Parrot_nosegfault() function >> to win32.c; after it is called, a segmentation fault will print >> "This process recei