Re: Object semantics

2003-01-05 Thread Gopal V
If memory serves me right, Dan Sugalski wrote: > >> Why would we want to avoid this? It looks exactly like what ought to > >> happen. If you can provide that in-vm , it would be a lot faster ...(hmm, that's one argument that should convince you ;) But like I said , I need lots of sticky notes

Re: Object semantics

2003-01-05 Thread Dan Sugalski
At 3:29 PM -0500 1/5/03, attriel wrote: > At 6:56 PM +0530 1/4/03, Gopal V wrote: If memory serves me right, Erik Bågfors wrote: > >> would a be able to modify itself ? (unfortunately C# allows that) > > To clarify here's my example ... =cut using System; public struct MyStruct { int

Re: This week's Perl Summary

2003-01-05 Thread Piers Cawley
Paul Kienzle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Piers Cawley wrote: > >>* Thanks to everyone who has given me feedback as a result of these >>summaries. It's really good to know that people finding these things >>useful. >> > Me too. I find I no longer read the list because I c

Re: Object semantics

2003-01-05 Thread attriel
> At 6:56 PM +0530 1/4/03, Gopal V wrote: >>If memory serves me right, Erik Bågfors wrote: >>> > >> would a be able to modify itself ? (unfortunately C# allows >>> that) >>> > > >> >>To clarify here's my example ... >> >>=cut >> >>using System; >>public struct MyStruct >>{ >> int val; >>

Re: Object semantics

2003-01-05 Thread Dan Sugalski
At 6:56 PM +0530 1/4/03, Gopal V wrote: If memory serves me right, Erik Bågfors wrote: > >> would a be able to modify itself ? (unfortunately C# allows that) > > To clarify here's my example ... =cut using System; public struct MyStruct { int val; public MyStruct(int x){ val=x; } public

Re: This week's Perl Summary

2003-01-05 Thread Paul Kienzle
Piers Cawley wrote: * Thanks to everyone who has given me feedback as a result of these summaries. It's really good to know that people finding these things useful. Me too. I find I no longer read the list because I can pick up the few relevant bits from the summary and fo

Re: GC/DOD feedback & runtime tuning

2003-01-05 Thread Mitchell N Charity
I'm not willing to go so radically to start, but I did have an idea. I think part of the extra cost is just in cache fluffiness--the sync info just isn't being used much. I don't think that it, or the property info, will be used most of the time. We could yank the metadata and sy

Re: This week's Perl Summary

2003-01-05 Thread Damian Conway
Piers Cawley wrote: Acknowledgements But, of course, modesty forebade him from thanking the tireless Perl 6 summarizer himself, for his sterling efforts wading through the morasses that are P6-language and P6-internals, endlessly straining out the essentials for the benefit of those in the Perl

Re: Variable/value vtable split

2003-01-05 Thread Leopold Toetsch
Mitchell N Charity wrote: (3) A new reflector/reference class. void set_integer_native (INTVAL value) { PMC *object_reflected = SELF->cache.pmc_val; object_reflected->vtable->set_integer_native(...); } Question ONE - What parts of the above code, if any, need to be changed