On Sat, 2007-02-24 at 04:55, Nick Leverton wrote: > On Saturday 24 February 2007 09:25, Christian Roessner wrote: > > > Tom, > > > Have you considered using glibc? This would address your speed issues, > > > and possibly allow embedded systems to compile with uclibc. > > > > What about flex,bison,C/C++ for the compiler? > > I wanted to bring Tom some positive comments on his actual questions, but > at the risk of just popping up when the bike-sheds need painting, he's > already looking at Perl, and I believe Perl 6 will have a native compiler > as well as a bytecode interpreter. So (depending on memory footprint of > course) a Perl solution need not be locked out of embedded systems.
Nick, That was my concern, and the reason for my suggestion. If perl has a native complier, it may work in embedded network appliances. -- Mike Noyes <mhnoyes at users.sourceforge.net> http://sourceforge.net/users/mhnoyes/ SF.net Projects: leaf, sitedocs ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Shorewall-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/shorewall-devel
