>>>>> "LW" == Larry Wall <larry@wall.org> writes: LW> We basically tried this experiment with Perl 5, and it's only a LW> partial success. Yes, you end up with a Perl VM that can run Perl LW> pretty fast, but it tends to complicate the mapping to other LW> virtual machines. (Enough so that we still don't have a LW> reasonable way to run Perl on a JVM, despite several attempts.) good point. does that mean we should think more risc like? my (very limited) impression of the jvm is that it lower level and not too dissimilar to p-code. how much closer to jvm (and $DIETY help us, .NET) should our IL design go? uri -- Uri Guttman --------- uri@sysarch.com ---------- http://www.sysarch.com SYStems ARCHitecture and Stem Development ------ http://www.stemsystems.com Learn Advanced Object Oriented Perl from Damian Conway - Boston, July 10-11 Class and Registration info: http://www.sysarch.com/perl/OOP_class.htmlThread Previous | Thread Next