#1885: Parrot_load_bytecode should only load bytecode
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Reporter: whiteknight | Owner: cotto
Type: RFC | Status: new
Priority: normal | Milestone:
Component: core | Version: master
Severity: medium | Keywords: pir, pbc
Lang: | Patch:
Platform: all |
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Comment(by whiteknight):
Thanks for the comments Patrick. One question I have is whether the call
"load_bytecode 'foo.pir'" Always triggers the :load functions and not the
:init functions. For a .pbc file I agree that triggering the :load
functions is the expected behavior, but I would be very very surprised if
IMCC were smart enough to determine that it should trigger :load and not
:init after compiling from the load_bytecode opcode.
Considering that :init and :immediate flags on subs are often used to
update the constants table, I would be extremely surprised if
"load_bytecode 'foo.pir'" did not trigger the :init functions. It may also
trigger the :load functions too. I think we should put together a test for
this behavior.
Also, I thought there was a way to output .pbc files from Parrot PIR code.
If there isn't one, we need to make creating it a high priority.
So it seems like we have a few steps to tackle first (I'll lay out some
things in a tasklist page on the wiki eventually):
- Figure out what, exactly, load_bytecode does.
- Figure out whether loading a .pir file is actually faster than loading
a .pbc file in current Parrot and, if so, why. This should not be the case
and if it is we have a serious problem.
- Create a new compiler compreg interface for IMCC that would perform the
kinds of functions we need it to perform
So this is turning out to be a bigger task than I originally thought but I
am becoming more and more convinced that it is necessary.
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Ticket URL: <https://trac.parrot.org/parrot/ticket/1885#comment:7>
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