Re: JIT problem on Cygwin revisited

2004-06-01 Thread Leopold Toetsch
Joshua Gatcomb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, it only happens under JIT for the following functions (identical code for atan works fine): cosh, sinh, tanh, sech, exp, pow It only happens if there are two set N# prior to the function where # is two different numbers N0 = 1 N1 = 1 I think

Re: One more thing...

2004-06-01 Thread Leopold Toetsch
Dan Sugalski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you want to go back to a frame pointer style of register stack access, that's doable, but that's the way it was in the beginning and the performance penalties in normal code outweighed the savings in stack pushes. JITted memory access through the

Re: JIT problem on Cygwin revisited

2004-06-01 Thread Joshua Gatcomb
I thought I had already replied to this but I don't seem to see it in the archive anywhere. --- Leopold Toetsch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think next step would need to review Cygwin math lib sources and trace into the library. Nasty. Parrot doesn't use GMP right? So the math library in

Morph for fun and profit

2004-06-01 Thread Dan Sugalski
Okay, since I was asked, and I'm starting to hit a need for it in general, I want to address morph, and some of its ramifications. And limitations, as it seems like it's only a partial solution We had issues way back about this and we worked 'em out, at least to some extent. Now that I'm

Re: Layering PMCs

2004-06-01 Thread Aaron Sherman
On Sat, 2004-05-29 at 15:29, Dan Sugalski wrote: The problem with the first scheme is that anything that has a handle on the PMC will not get the new layers. Not a good thing. I like the first scheme. The question that comes up is: when does something get layered? That is: if I have code

Re: FW: Periodic Table of the Operators

2004-06-01 Thread Mark J. Reed
How are those without a US keyboard supposed to type this? I assume you mean with a US keyboard? US keyboards don't have ¥. You can use zip if you want ASCII. Otherwise, it depends. But Yen is Unicode codepoint U+00A5 = 165 decimal, so you can type it in Windows as ALT + numpad 0165 even

Re: Predicting Operators

2004-06-01 Thread Aaron Sherman
On Fri, 2004-05-28 at 02:26, Mark Lentczner wrote: It is clear that there is a missing list concatenate operator, and that its spelling should be ~~. Alas, that is already taken by smart match. On the other hand, perhaps comma fills this role - though I couldn't find my way through the

Re: FW: Periodic Table of the Operators

2004-06-01 Thread Aaron Sherman
On Sat, 2004-05-29 at 19:04, Gabriel Ebner wrote: Hello, Joe Gottman wrote: The zip operator is now the Yen sign (¥). How are those without a US keyboard supposed to type this? Well, first off my US keyboard doesn't contain it. Second, you're not supposed to. ¥ is a shorthand for zip,

[perl #29994] [BUG] loadlib $P0, varname not working correctly

2004-06-01 Thread via RT
# New Ticket Created by Jens Rieks # Please include the string: [perl #29994] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # URL: http://rt.perl.org:80/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=29994 % cat error.imc .sub _main @MAIN .local string na123me na123me = /foo

Re: FW: Periodic Table of the Operators

2004-06-01 Thread Gabriel Ebner
Hello, Mark J. Reed wrote: I assume you mean with a US keyboard? US keyboards don't have . Oops, must have mistakenly picked an US-International chart, sorry. Gabriel. -- Gabriel Ebner - reverse [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: FW: Periodic Table of the Operators

2004-06-01 Thread Gabriel Ebner
Hello, Aaron Sherman wrote: Well, first off my US keyboard doesn't contain it. Sorry, mistakenly picked an US-International chart. Second, you're not supposed to. So why has it been chosen then? is a shorthand for zip, Good to know. and if you don't want to use the funky one-character

Re: One more thing...

2004-06-01 Thread Piers Cawley
Leopold Toetsch [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Piers Cawley wrote: But under this scheme, the implementing function will have to do a saveall for every function it calls because it doesn't know what registers its caller cares about. And you're almost certainly going to want to call other

Re: FW: Periodic Table of the Operators

2004-06-01 Thread Paul Seamons
Or for the few Perl emacs people out there: C-x 8 Y C-x 8 C-x 8 Paul On Tuesday 01 June 2004 10:27 am, Gabriel Ebner wrote: Hello, Aaron Sherman wrote: Well, first off my US keyboard doesn't contain it. Sorry, mistakenly picked an US-International chart. Second, you're not supposed

Re: FW: Periodic Table of the Operators

2004-06-01 Thread Mark J. Reed
On 2004-06-01 at 14:10:08, Paul Seamons wrote: Or for the few Perl emacs people out there: C-x 8 Y C-x 8 C-x 8 I suspect there are more than a few. I don't think there's anything constitutional about folks who like Emacs that prevents them from liking Perl or vice-versa. Even though

Re: [Poop-group] Perl 6 Periodic Table of the Operators

2004-06-01 Thread David Nicol
So is he going to backport his representational ideography to the operators of perl 5.8? Darren Duncan wrote: Mark Lentczner has just (on May 26/28) created a useful/humerous graphical diagram of the 100+ operators in the Perl 6 language, designed to look like the periodic table of atomic