Re: Outstanding parrot issues?

Nicholas Clark <[email protected]> wrote:

> If I understand this correctly, then this is far more restrictive than the
> perl5 embedding interface.

This is *one* way to start things up. You can start the app with
Parrot_run_native. You can set the stack top. You can register each PMC
with dod_register. You can stuff all PMCs that wouldn't be visible into a
PMC array ...But one of these policies or a suitable mixture has
to be choosen.

Like it or not DOD/GC has different impacts on the embedder. Above rules
are simple. There is no "when the PMC isn't used any more decrement a
refcount" and "when you do that and that then icnrement a refcount" or
some such like in XS. This is really simple. Simplest is to just set the
top of stack.

> Nicholas Clark

leo