Re: Outstanding parrot issues?

On 30 Apr 2004, at 19:30, Leopold Toetsch wrote:

> 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.
>

I am now going to be impolite.

THERE ARE CASES WHERE YOU CAN NOT SET A TOP OF STACK, FOR EXAMPLE IF 
YOU ARE WRITING A PLUGIN TO A BINARY ONLY APPLICATION LIKE INTERNET 
EXPLORER OR WRITING AN APACHE2 SHARED LIBRARY THAT IS SUPPOSED TO WORK 
WITH PRE COMPILED BINARIES, NOT TO MENTION A LOT OF APPLICATIONS THAT 
MIGHT WANT TO EMBED PARROT AS AN OPTION MIGHT FEEL IT IS A TAD FUCKING 
UNCLEAN TO RUN THEIR ENTIRE APPLICATION THROUGH PARROT (THINK 
OPENOFFICE)

I am amazed by the fact that parrot seems determined to redo the same 
misstakes perl5 did.

Arthur