Re: Stacks, registers, and bytecode. (Oh, my!)

2001-06-01 Thread mooring
On Wed, May 30, 2001 at 12:14:29PM -0400, Uri Guttman wrote: NI == Nick Ing-Simmons [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: NI The overhead of op dispatch is a self-proving issue - if you NI have complex ops they are expensive to dispatch. but as someone else said, we can design our own ops to be

Re: Stacks, registers, and bytecode. (Oh, my!)

2001-06-01 Thread mooring
On Tue, May 29, 2001 at 06:20:40PM -0400, Dan Sugalski wrote: I really think we'll win if we have support for at least integers as well as PMCs. There's potentially a lot of integer work that'll be generated by the optimizer and, while integer opcodes might not make the interpreter much