At 03:37 PM 1/3/2002 -0800, Brent Dax wrote:
>The attached patch is also in preparation for Rx3 (or whatever you want
>to call it). It implements a new Handle PMC type. Handles simply
>contain pointers. They can't be directly manipulated directly by Parrot
>bytecode; C code uses handle->vtable->get_value and ->set_value to
>manipulate them. They stringify to "Handle=0xDECAF" (or whatever) and
>numify to 912559 (or whatever).
While cool, I'm interested in why? For regexes you can stash a pointer to
the string buffer into an S register if you want to bypass even one level
of indirection.
Dan
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