At 8:27 PM +0200 10/7/02, Juergen Boemmels wrote:
> >From TODO:
> Metadata (source line number info, symbol table)
>
>Currently parrot the line number information in parrot is done via
>special opcodes, namely setline/getline and setfile/getfile. This is a
>good solution when you write an interpreter in parrot, and the line
>number information is only known at runtime. But this approach is very
>inefficient if you have a tight loop like this:
Right. We're moving the line number information out of band, into a
separate section of the bytecode. I've specs for it--I'd promise when
but I've not dug through the backlog of unmet promises from the last
perl 6 summary. :)
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