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From:
Larry Wall
Date:
September 5, 1999 21:59
Subject:
Re: Purpose of Strong Typing.
Message ID:
199909060458.VAA18716@kiev.wall.org
Benjamin Stuhl writes:
: >Similar optimizations could be had in the interpreter if we went to
: >some kind of a model that included "registers" that could bypass
: >stack discipline.  This applies to ints, nums and strs as well.
: >
: >Larry
: 
: Doesn't TARG sort of act like a (non type-specific) register now?

Well, sort of.  A TARG is just an anonymous "my" variable.  But
it's still an SV* rather than an IV, NV or PV, which implies two
levels of indirection to get to the real IV, NV, or PV.

Larry
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