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On Thu, Jul 20, 2000 at 03:53:12PM -0400, kfox@vulpes.com wrote:
> Benjamin Stuhl wrote:
> > ... as performance is still somewhat of an issue (and
> > perl5, at least, eats immense amounts of memory even in C), I would propose
> > that the intermediate language (and that of the microperl6) be C, rather
> > than something higher level with more overhead.
>
> Joshua already outlined an implementation, but here's a bit more
> detail of how it could work.
I'm not sure if you're trying to elaborate on my proposal or you're
coming up with something completely different. In any case, I'll
contrast with what I was thinking.
> 1. A micro-perl compiler is written in micro-perl.
For the record, I never advocated writing a perl compiler in perl. I
envisioned a three step process:
perl code generator (in perl) => C/C++ compiler => perl
I'm not sure whether perl can be implemented in perl. Even if it can,
why bother?
> Micro-perl is an easily compiled
> subset of Perl 5: No eval, no dynamic symbol table stuff, no BEGIN/END,
> no overloading, no garbage collection, etc.
So can it do anything??
> This is a total change in direction from previous work done with Topaz.
Yes, well, my proposal was actually in a very similar direction in
comparison with Topaz.
Hope this helps.
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