Re: Perl Implementation Language

[David L. Nicol]

Dan Sugalski wrote:

> 1) How fast is the C (or whatever) code it emits likely to be?

The perl-in-perl interpreter would not be a deliverable.  Speed would
not be its goal.  It would be a reference implementation that would be
easier to break and repair.  An internals tutorial, if you will.  

So you don't have to go explaining what you mean by "vtable" freshly
to every new person who figures it out on their own and gets it subtly
wrong, for instance.

It's a documentation exercise, the serious implementors would port it
to the target language and would raise hell when something difficult
to port shows up in it.



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