>>>>> "BR" == Bob Rogers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
BR> As machines get faster and ease of cross-platform installation gets more BR> important, I expect the need for C-level hackery will go down. I BR> suspect this is overused even at present. Several years ago, I wound up BR> rewriting a mini-app with an XS hack in pure Perl, partly because I had BR> trouble compiling it on my config and partly because an experiment BR> showed that the increase in runtime would be less than 15%. also parrot bytecode will be able to be compiled (on disk and/or in ram) to machine code using JIT. this will work on most of the (fewer and fewer) popular cpus and will get close to c speed without the c hassle. i expect much less xs type code in parrot/perl6 for speed reasons. and integrating c/c++ libraries (another major reason for xs) will be lessened by the new interface layer. so in general i expect perl6/parrot stuff to be much more portable and easier to install on most systems. uri -- Uri Guttman ------ [EMAIL PROTECTED] -------- http://www.stemsystems.com --Perl Consulting, Stem Development, Systems Architecture, Design and Coding- Search or Offer Perl Jobs ---------------------------- http://jobs.perl.org _______________________________________________ Boston-pm mailing list [email protected] http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm
