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Re: Stacks, registers, and bytecode. (Oh, my!)

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From:
Graham Barr
Date:
June 5, 2001 14:14
Subject:
Re: Stacks, registers, and bytecode. (Oh, my!)
Message ID:
20010605220942.B50444@pobox.com
On Tue, Jun 05, 2001 at 03:31:24PM -0500, David L. Nicol wrote:
> Graham Barr wrote:
> 
> > I think there are a lot of benefits to the re engine not to be
> > separate from the core perl ops.
> 
> 
> So does it start with a split(//,$bound_thing) or does it use
> substr(...) with explicit offsets?

Eh ?

Nobody is suggesting we implement re's using the current set of
perl ops, but that we extend the set with ops needed for re's. So
they use the same dispatch loop and that the ops can be intermixed

Graham.

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