At 11:02 AM 10/3/2001 -0400, Bryan C. Warnock wrote:
>On Wednesday 03 October 2001 10:57 am, Dan Sugalski wrote:
> > Having said that, if you're looking to add optimizations into the
> > assembler, you're probably OK, but I'm not sure it's worth the effort at
> > the moment.
>
>Investigating what effect a non-duplicated, non-overridable set of opcodes
>(namely, the base set of I*, N*, and S* calls) inlined would have on
>performance.
Ah. Yeah, those will all be non-overridable. The opcodes that do the same
thing with PMCs will also be non-overridable, but since they work through
the vtables associated with the constants the behaviour can be changed by
messing with those if need be.
Dan
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