Re: the C JIT

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From:

Nathan Wiger

Date:

August 31, 2000 15:37

Subject:

Re: the C JIT

Message ID:

39AEDE3E.70C0A62F@west.sun.com

"David L. Nicol" wrote:
>
>         my dog $spot;
> to
>         dog spot;
> 
> If we only allow this where enough info is available to allocate dog-sized
> pieces of memory directly, Perl can blaze through the code that deals with
> dogs.

I don't see what barewords gain us here. Who says that

   my dog $spot;

Already won't micromanage memory through implicit constructors? That's
certainly the current idea behind:

   my int $x = 5;    # $x = int->CREATE, $x->STORE(5)

This would call an implicit constructor on the 'int' class. The 'int'
subclass would optimize things so that $x would get all the
computational virtues and all the bondage and discipline of strong
typing.

More details on this can be found here:

http://www.mail-archive.com/perl6-language-objects%40perl.org/msg00137.html
http://www.mail-archive.com/perl6-language-objects%40perl.org/msg00105.html
http://www.mail-archive.com/perl6-language-objects%40perl.org/msg00152.html

-Nate

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