Re: To get things started...

2000-11-22 Thread Steve Fink
Dan Sugalski wrote: You're not wrong, but I don't think this is a huge problem. Lots of systems do it like this at the moment--GCC comes to mind as a first one, but there are lots of others. Granted it does mean that we'll need to ship a bytecode-compiled version of the parser as part of

Re: To get things started...

2000-11-22 Thread Dan Sugalski
At 08:51 PM 11/21/00 -0500, Sam Tregar wrote: On Wed, 22 Nov 2000, Nicholas Clark wrote: Are we hoping that we can mmap() most scripts, so read isn't hugely a problem? And slrp the rest in one? [doesn't feel good] Are we going to have "lazy scalars" which collude with the regexp