Re: Threaded Perl bytecode (was: Re: stackless python)

2000-10-23 Thread Chaim Frenkel
"AT" == Adam Turoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: AT If Perl bytecode were to become threaded, it would be rather troublesome. AT It would probably require some attribute or early compile time AT declaration (in main::BEGIN) to tag specific subs/builtins to be AT overridden at runtime. It would

Re: Threaded Perl bytecode (was: Re: stackless python)

2000-10-23 Thread Larry Wall
Adam Turoff writes: : If Perl bytecode were to become threaded, it would be rather troublesome. Wasn't actually suggesting it, though similar issues also arise for compiling down to efficient C, JVM, or C# IL. Optimizing for Least Surprise means different things in different contexts, but I'd

Re: Threaded Perl bytecode (was: Re: stackless python)

2000-10-23 Thread Dan Sugalski
At 08:45 AM 10/23/00 -0700, Larry Wall wrote: Adam Turoff writes: : If Perl bytecode were to become threaded, it would be rather troublesome. Wasn't actually suggesting it, though similar issues also arise for compiling down to efficient C, JVM, or C# IL. Optimizing for Least Surprise means

Re: Threaded Perl bytecode (was: Re: stackless python)

2000-10-23 Thread Adam Turoff
On Mon, Oct 23, 2000 at 11:03:12AM -0400, Chaim Frenkel wrote: "AT" == Adam Turoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: AT It would also mean that if anything was overriden anywhere, no AT module code could be read in as bytecode, since it may need to be AT rethreaded to incorporate overrideable