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From:
Dan Sugalski
Date:
October 21, 2002 10:52
Subject:
Re: C# and Parrot
Message ID:
a05111b06b9d9ee7d3658@[63.120.19.221]
At 7:21 PM +0530 10/20/02, Gopal V wrote:
>If memory serves me right, Bryan C. Warnock wrote:
>>  > It looks like we're going to need 8,16,32,64 bit types...
>>
>>  Interesting read.  Dan skimmed over this, but what do .NET (and JVM) doe
>>  for floating point numbers?
>
>IL (Ecma-335)
>--------------
>13    4.1.1 Floating Point
>14           The floating point feature set consists of the user-visible
>              floating-point data types float32 and float64, and
>15           support for an internal representation of floating-point numbers.
>
>Float32 -- Single
>Float64 -- Double
>
>And,IIRC the same for JVM as well ?.

I think so. I'm going to add in some conversion ops for the shorter 
float forms, and for the partial-sized integers. I'm unsure at the 
moment whether I want to commit to full 64 bit integers in I 
registers. On the one hand it means a lot more can be done at the low 
level, on the other it means things are going to be potentially slow 
and emulated on non-64 bit int platforms. Plus it'll waste a fair 
amount of L1 cache for no purpose most of the time.

>  > Are we still targeting a middle ground for C?  (Enough to be able to
>>  parse and handle structs natively, and possibly even make calls
>>  natively?)
>
>Hmm... would be thinking of something like PInvoke in C# ?
>(viz a lot like JNI, but marshalls/unmarshalls args automatically,
>  and we've managed to wrap parts of X11 with it).

Yeah, I want to do that with parrot, being able to on the fly 
generate low-level call frames and call into native routines without 
having to explicitly generate and compile C code for it.

It's a portability problem, to be sure, but on the other hand if 
we're going to have a JIT most places we're already getting much 
grubbier.

-- 
                                         Dan

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