At 2:30 AM +0000 4/20/02, Chip Salzenberg wrote:
>According to [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dan Sugalski):
>>At the moment, we don't have to support cascading lexical
>>scratchpads--since we know at compile time which variables we're
>>accessing and where they come from, we can install trampoline entries
>>in the current scope's scratchpad and not have to search outward at
>>runtime.
>
>Once you start down that path, forever will it dominate your closure
>implementation. I suggest you do lexical scopes right from the start.
That sounds like a good idea. :)
What, in this context, is right? I'm kinda winging it.
>Surely they're not that much harder than a trampoline.... Are they?
No, but there are speed issues. With a trampoline (or just sticking
the original PMC's pointer in) we don't have to do any back-lookups.
Plus there's the issue of how injecting lexicals into caller's scopes
are supposed to work.
>PS: I'm back. }:-)
Yay!
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