Re: LALR (was Re: Working Group Proposal)

Nick Ing-Simmons wrote:

> As one of those well able to do the plugging, parsing and lexing what
> scared me off was the black magic of the op "tree" - which is neither
> a parse tree in traditional sense, nor threaded code as in FORTH but
> a weird hybrid.  My cache friendly data structures idea might result
> in having a tree (for parse, symbols introspection) and threaded code
> for execution.

Forget the cache for the moment - seperation of the read-only and
read/write parts of the parse tree would be a major step in that it
would remove a lot of the the COWs (Copy On Writes) that happen whenever
a perl script forks another copy of itself.  It would probably help
threading quite a bit as well.

-- 
Alan Burlison