Re: data storage and representation when designing bytecode (and VM)

[Dan Sugalski]

At 12:27 PM 10/3/00 -0500, Jarkko Hietaniemi wrote:
>Serializing an optree is rather tricky especially if one wants to
>deserialize it on a different platform.  Because of icky things like
>structure padding one effectively really needs to go the way of
>*byte*codes which makes for one ssslllooowww VM.

Nah, it doesn't need to be that slow. There are a number of things we can 
do to speed it up a bunch over the current way of doing things (which is 
suboptimal). I don't see any reason why we shouldn't be able to 
significantly speed up program loading, especially if we have async I/O 
available.

                                        Dan

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