Re: [perl #16269] [PATCH] COW...Again and Again

2002-08-22 Thread Mike Lambert
Some final 5000 life results from my system, and a few improvements I believe are still possible: Before COW: 172 seconds After COW: 121 seconds A 30% improvement in performance is not too bad, I suppose. Well done Mike! Thanks! CVS/COW with stack pointer alignment = four: 93 seconds

Re: [COMMIT] Basic BNF and Parse::RecDescent grammar for Perl6 rx// operator

2002-08-22 Thread Simon Cozens
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jeff) writes: The subject pretty much says it all. The format pretty much corresponds to the upcoming Exegesis. Major changes were to the modifiers, and a few syntax changes in the depths. I've started rewriting my Shishi P6 RE module since it was becoming way too

RE: [COMMIT] Some of you may have noticed...

2002-08-22 Thread Brent Dax
Jeff Goff: # The mass of ICU code that's been added to Parrot. It's taking Have we determined that there are no programming language and portablility issues yet? Are all the bits we need written in C? If not, we can't use it. Does ICU handle Unix, Windows, VMS and Palm OS? If not, we can't

Re: [perl #16269] [PATCH] COW...Again and Again

2002-08-22 Thread Peter Gibbs
Mike Lambert wrote: Should this be a configure.pl-determined constant? Should we hardcode it to sizeof(void*)? Is this behavior guaranteed by the C spec? Can we assume it across all platforms even if it is not guaranteed? I would be in favour of making it configuration-determined, just in

Re: Off-list discussions, was Re: imcc hack for perl6 regexes

2002-08-22 Thread Richard Soderberg
On Wed, 21 Aug 2002, Mark Koopman wrote: I wonder how many interested observers of this list there are like myself. I only wish I had the time experience/skill/knowledge to contribute. Keep up the good work. Lurker honk, agreement. :) R.

Re: [perl #16690] Disable t/src under testj

2002-08-22 Thread Michael G Schwern
On Wed, Aug 21, 2002 at 02:11:29PM +, Daniel Grunblatt wrote: Apart from that, does anyone know why test doesn't run on OpenBSD? I get: ar: illegal option -- s Gnu-ism? What ar does OpenBSD use? A number of modifiers (mod) may immediately follow the p keyletter, to

Re: INP (imcc's not parrot) (was: Re: imcc hack for perl6 regexes)

2002-08-22 Thread Leopold Toetsch
'John Porter' wrote: Brent Dax wrote: No; but statements like imcc MUST provide access to ALL of parrot's (still very dynamic) feature set and discussions of imcc syntax naturally lead to questions of imcc's role in the parrot project. E.g. will the perl6 compiler target imcc? The perl6

Re: imcc hack for perl6 regexes

2002-08-22 Thread Leopold Toetsch
Sean O'Rourke wrote: On Wed, 21 Aug 2002, Leopold Toetsch wrote: Well, Sean's not quite sure about that. I agree with Melvin that using PASM syntax for IMCC could make it harder to target other platforms. I don't know Melvin's plan for other targets - but - as parrot is very special - I

Re: imcc hack for perl6 regexes

2002-08-22 Thread Leopold Toetsch
Melvin Smith wrote: At 11:15 PM 8/21/2002 +0200, Leopold Toetsch wrote: So please, first, let's consider the status quo, not the future. Agree. _SV_s1 = clone $P1 I've considered changing '=' to mean clone, and add ':=' to imply set. What do you think? No changes in

Re: [perl #16690] Disable t/src under testj

2002-08-22 Thread Graham Barr
On Wed, Aug 21, 2002 at 07:17:22AM -0700, Michael G Schwern wrote: On Wed, Aug 21, 2002 at 02:11:29PM +, Daniel Grunblatt wrote: Apart from that, does anyone know why test doesn't run on OpenBSD? I get: ar: illegal option -- s Gnu-ism? What ar does OpenBSD use? Obviously and

Re: INP (imcc's not parrot)

2002-08-22 Thread 'John Porter'
Dan Sugalski wrote: The intent ultimately is that you hand an AST, and potentially some rules, to IMCC and it creates bytecode for you from it. That's different, then. Then the whole issue of syntax goes away. Unless the data interchange format is textual; but even then, you'd want a

[IDEA] multidim hashes

2002-08-22 Thread Josef Hook
I've just got a cvaazy idea. Why not have a multihash.pmc, multdimensional hashes. I've been going through perlhash code and my multiarray code and, as i see it, its doable. Why would we want something like that one could ask? One idea is for translation from different languages ex: new P0,

[PROPOSAL] interface for custom pmc functions

2002-08-22 Thread Josef Hook
It's a fact that we have a problem with pmc's that has custom functions which dosent fit into the vtable. Therefore i suggest we add a pointer in pmc struct that points to a function list, Also adding 3 functions to vtable struct that manipulates this list. register_function( PMC *p, void

Re: [PROPOSAL] interface for custom pmc functions

2002-08-22 Thread Aldo Calpini
Josef Hook wrote: It's a fact that we have a problem with pmc's that has custom functions which dosent fit into the vtable. Therefore i suggest we add a pointer in pmc struct that points to a function list, we already have find_method and invoke, they just need to be implemented :-) I was