Re: An overview of the Parrot interpreter

[Dan Sugalski]

On Sun, 2 Sep 2001, Simon Cozens wrote:

> For instance, the Parrot VM will have a register architecture, rather
> than a stack architecture. It will also have extremely low-level
> operations, more similar to Java's than the medium-level ops of Perl and
> Python and the like.

For those of you worrying that parrot will be *just* low-level ops,
don't. There will be medium and high level ops in the set as well. (call
method, start thread, and start dead-object detection, for example) We'll
compile down to what we need to do things fastest.

                                        Dan