Note: We've moved past hyper-ops (I hope!), but there are still some details in this post that deserve a response on tangential topics.
On Wed, 2004-04-21 at 11:52, Leopold Toetsch wrote: > Aaron Sherman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > That's unrealistic. > > No. A real test. Sorry, I was not clear enough. Yes, of course, non-Parrot Perl 5 is going to be slow at this, but we expect that and your results showed nothing surprising. What might be interesting is to compare Parrot to Parrot doing this with and without a hyper-operator. That's all I was trying to say. As for the DOD: you have an excellent point, but it extends far beyond the hyper-operators. I'm starting to think that front-ends like the Python compiler or the Perl 6 compiler are going to need controls over the DOD for just the reasons you cite. After all, they know when they are about to start doing some large looping operation that's all highly constrained with respect to allocation. It would make sense to gather the resources they need, lock down DOD, do what they need to do and then unlock the DOD... -- Aaron Sherman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Senior Systems Engineer and Toolsmith "It's the sound of a satellite saying, 'get me down!'" -Shriekback
