Re: Prothon IS different inside

On Sun, Jul 11, 2004 at 08:40:51AM -0700, Paul Prescod wrote:
> 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.

Objects are implemented in C?  Man, suddenly the porting effort (of
Parrot to a new platform) doubles...

Joe