Re: [PATCH] Updatecc fix

2004-01-14 Thread Leopold Toetsch
Luke Palmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In the spirit of getting real continuations working Just Right, this modifies IMCC's PCC implementation to emit the updatecc *after* the pushtop, so that the redundant pushtop isn't necessary when returning with a real continuation. The PCC shortcuts in

Re: [PATCH] PPC JIT fixes [re-send] (Modified by Jeff Clites)

2004-01-14 Thread Michael Scott
$Config{archname} wasn't getting parsed quite right on OS X and so JIT wasn't getting detected in some cases. I checked in a fix for that. It's certainly nice to see the tests run faster. make test All tests successful, 49 subtests skipped. Files=90, Tests=1289, 138 wallclock secs (47.38 cusr +

Re: [PATCH] PPC JIT fixes [re-send] (Modified by Jeff Clites)

2004-01-14 Thread Leopold Toetsch
Michael Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But, on looking closer at that, could someone demuddle my ignorance and tell me why the t/src tests are not run under testj? These don't have a run-loop, so you can't run these with any run-core. A plain make test covers src tests, running src tests again

Re: run-once code

2004-01-14 Thread Richard Nuttall
David Storrs wrote: Given this code: if ( some_expensive_lookup_function() = $MAX_RECORDS ) { mark_that_we_have_reached_max_records(); return; } After I enter that block once, I never want to evaluate the condition again--I want the code to completely disappear

Re: run-once code

2004-01-14 Thread Dan Brook
On Tue, 13 Jan 2004 20:37:21 -0800 David Storrs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Given this code: if ( some_expensive_lookup_function() = $MAX_RECORDS ) { mark_that_we_have_reached_max_records(); return; } After I enter that block once, I never want to

Re: run-once code

2004-01-14 Thread Luke Palmer
Jonathan Scott Duff writes: On Tue, Jan 13, 2004 at 10:16:48PM -0700, Luke Palmer wrote: So, let's say you have something like: $x = 100_000; my $seen; while $x -- 0 { Don't do that! I had to look at this twice before I decided that perl6 didn't get a new operator :)

Re: [PATCH] Updatecc fix

2004-01-14 Thread Luke Palmer
Leopold Toetsch writes: Luke Palmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In the spirit of getting real continuations working Just Right, this modifies IMCC's PCC implementation to emit the updatecc *after* the pushtop, so that the redundant pushtop isn't necessary when returning with a real

Re: [PATCH] Updatecc fix

2004-01-14 Thread Leopold Toetsch
Luke Palmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Leopold Toetsch writes: The PCC shortcuts in imcc only deal with normal Sub calls (Sub and Closure, Coroutines should be ok too). Full Continuations currenty need some hints by the programmer. Do you have an example what do you want to achieve? Yep.

Re: Docs and releases

2004-01-14 Thread Robin Redeker
On Mon, Jan 12, 2004 at 05:01:41PM +, Harry Jackson wrote: If there are any shy lurkers out there please speak now or forever hold your peace. Well, here i speak ;-) I have some (minor) skills in C, Perl, Networking, compiling, and other stuff. I also downloaded Parrot some months ago,

Re: run-once code

2004-01-14 Thread Melvin Smith
At 10:16 PM 1/13/2004 -0700, Luke Palmer wrote: David Storrs writes: Given this code: if ( some_expensive_lookup_function() = $MAX_RECORDS ) { mark_that_we_have_reached_max_records(); return; } After I enter that block once, I never want to evaluate the condition

Re: run-once code

2004-01-14 Thread David Storrs
On Tue, Jan 13, 2004 at 10:16:48PM -0700, Luke Palmer wrote: sub mark_that_we_have_reached_max_records() { $max_reached = 1; } if !$max_reached some_expensive_lookup_function() $MAX_RECORDS { mark_that_we_have_reached_max_records(); return; }

Re: run-once code

2004-01-14 Thread David Storrs
On Wed, Jan 14, 2004 at 10:59:52AM -0500, Melvin Smith wrote: I think Perl6 will allow a hint like so: my int $max_reached; The important thing is that $max_reached is used simply as a conditional, and you don't pass it to a routine or otherwise use it in a way to cause it to be

Re: run-once code

2004-01-14 Thread David Storrs
On Wed, Jan 14, 2004 at 11:57:05AM +, Richard Nuttall wrote: How about $test = sub { if ( some_expensive_lookup_function() = $MAX_RECORDS ) mark_that_we_have_reached_max_records(); $test = sub{}; }; Then call $test() as needed; Neat. I wouldn't

Re: run-once code

2004-01-14 Thread Melvin Smith
At 09:31 AM 1/14/2004 -0800, David Storrs wrote: On Wed, Jan 14, 2004 at 10:59:52AM -0500, Melvin Smith wrote: I think Perl6 will allow a hint like so: my int $max_reached; The important thing is that $max_reached is used simply as a conditional, and you don't pass it to a routine or

Re: run-once code

2004-01-14 Thread Luke Palmer
David Storrs writes: On Wed, Jan 14, 2004 at 11:57:05AM +, Richard Nuttall wrote: How about $test = sub { if ( some_expensive_lookup_function() = $MAX_RECORDS ) mark_that_we_have_reached_max_records(); $test = sub{}; }; Then call $test()

Re: This week's summary

2004-01-14 Thread Dan Sugalski
At 12:36 PM -0500 1/13/04, Uri Guttman wrote: TP6S == The Perl 6 Summarizer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: TP6S Congratulations Dan TP6S Melvin Smith offered his congratulations to Dan for the TP6S first commercial use of Parrot. I think I can safely say we TP6S all echo those

Re: run-once code

2004-01-14 Thread A. Pagaltzis
* Luke Palmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2004-01-14 19:03]: Let's not mention that that has way more overhead than a short-circuiting test, but I guess the idea's the important thing. How about a calculated goto? *grin* -- Regards, Aristotle If you can't laugh at yourself, you don't take life

Re: JVM as a threading example (threads proposal)

2004-01-14 Thread Jeff Clites
On Jan 12, 2004, at 10:03 AM, Gordon Henriksen wrote: On Monday, January 12, 2004, at 04:29 , Jeff Clites wrote: 5) Java seems to use a check-in/check-out model for access to global data, in which global data lives in a central store, but is copied back-and-forth to thread-local storage for