On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 09:41:37PM -0700, Geoffrey Broadwell wrote: > On Mon, 2009-03-16 at 21:08 -0500, Patrick R. Michaud wrote: > > By putting floor/ceiling/round/sign/abs as a candidates for the setting > > I was really aiming more for "inline PIR" than a pure Perl 6 solution. > > We still need those functions to have signatures and (perhaps) > > participate in multidispatch, and that's easier if the function > > definitions are Perl 6 (with the function bodies being inline PIR > > or a mixture of Perl 6 and inline PIR). > > Gotcha. Sounds fine by me (as long as the Perl 6 signatures don't carry > significantly more overhead than the pure-PIR version).
They do carry more overhead (perhaps even a significant amount), but it's a necessary overhead because we want them to properly participate in multidispatch, and we'd like things like .signature to work properly. Pm
