Re: Threaded In-Line Code (was Re: Typed Intermediate Language)

[Nick Ing-Simmons]

Chaim Frenkel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>>>>>> "DS" == Dan Sugalski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
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>DS> I was actually thinking that @b * @c would boil down to a single vtable 
>DS> call--we'd just hit the multiply function for variable @b, and pass it a 
>DS> pointer to @c, and let it Do The Right Thing.
>
>But that was my question in the _other_ thread. How?
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>Given N different fundemental types, we end up with NxN vtbl entries.

Which is not necessarily a problem if N is small (a 4x4 vtable is easy).

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Nick Ing-Simmons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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