At 04:53 PM 9/22/2001 -0400, Ken Fox wrote:
I've been thinking about the possibility of building a higher-level
VM. The current VM is very close to a traditional CPU.
It's not, we just haven't gotten to the interesting bits yet. :)
What if we
did something non-traditional that made implementing
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I've been thinking about the possibility of building a higher-level
VM. The current VM is very close to a traditional CPU. What if we
did something non-traditional that
I've been thinking about the possibility of building a higher-level
VM. The current VM is very close to a traditional CPU. What if we
did something non-traditional that made implementing higher-level
lexically scoped languages easier?
What if the VM (and assembler) had lexical scoping built-in
On Sat, 22 Sep 2001, Ken Fox wrote:
I've been thinking about the possibility of building a higher-level
VM. The current VM is very close to a traditional CPU. What if we did
something non-traditional that made implementing higher-level
lexically scoped languages easier?
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I'm proposing:
David M. Lloyd wrote:
Take it from me (the one with several abortive attempts at getting an
extra compare stuck in Perl 5's dispatch loop): You don't want to stick
another compare in there. It *kills* performance.
Kills? I thought the event flag test dropped performance by a few
percent. We
