At 04:48 PM 10/16/2001 -0400, James Mastros wrote:
>What I'm thinking is that if you can compile C code to target the PVM, we
>can have it be /almost/ trivial to run C code with the portablity of
>Parrot, and make C code callable from Perl and vice-versa with only a
>recompile. (Or you can not recompile, and make a perl extension, but
>that'd be more work.)
Ummm. Well. I think that you'll find this pretty much the case already (or
planned, at least, as some of the bits aren't done yet) so I'm not sure
that it'd really buy anything other than slower C code.
Which isn't to say we can't expose the utility library we build to provide
cross-platform portability, but that's a separate issue.
>If our VM can run C and C++, then we hugely expand the usefulness of both
>C/C++ and Parrot. And that can only be a win for everybody.
There are wags who'd argue that multiplying the utility of something that's
within epsilon of zero (Like, say, C...) won't get you very far. :)
Dan
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