Re: Re: Re: Re: message from Parrot PieThon developer

Lenard Lindstrom wrote:
> On Sun, 11 Jul 2004 11:42:30 -0700 Mark Hahn <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> 
>> The big problem is that switching to Parrot is a one-way decision
>> for me.  I don't have the luxury of doing it as a research project
>> on the side.  I either stick with APR or jump to Parrot and live or
>> die with Parrot.  If I jump to Parrot and it takes years to finish
>> or never finishes, then Prothon is doomed.  I can't take that chance.
>> 
> I finally remembered I could read the Parrot documentation using
> perldoc. I have since found the assembly language description. There
> is a lot of stuff that is irrelevant to Prothon. And it is not clear
> if Parrot's PMC object handling is right for Prothon. It is geared
> towards object-oriented systems. It would also turn every object byte
> code operation into a function call. And I do not know how it would
> handle op_ / rop_ combinations (Prothon does support rop_'s, right?).

Yes.

> And the Python benchmark code written for Parrot avoids many Python
> features. Moving to Parrot would certainly be a risk. You are wise in
> sticking with your own interpreter. A Parrot version can always come
> later.  
> 
> Lenard Lindstrom
> <[email protected]>
> 
> 
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