Re: Prothon IS different inside

Joe Mason wrote:

>...
> Well, you have to use them when writing the object internals.
> Otherwise, what actual Parrot asembly instructions do you emit while
> adding two int objects?  

The instructions to call add_ methods on the objects. And then the 
objects are implemented in C so they do addition C-style. That's more or 
less how Python does it although there is an optimization for if the 
interpreter detects that both operands are really just integers: then it 
skips the method call and does the addition itself.

  Paul Prescod