Re: vtable changes?

[email protected] (Leopold Toetsch) Thu, 14 Jul 2005 17:42:21 +0200
Newsgroups perl.perl6.internals,perl.ponie.dev
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Nicholas Clark wrote:

> There were some PMC vtable changes recently. Are any more expected, or is
> the vtable size/disposition expected to remain unchanged from here on?

I expect some additional PMC-only vtable functions needed for representing:

*)  $n = +$x;
*)  $s = ~$x;
*)  $b = ?$x;

We have a rather complete list of vtables with native types, but PMC 
only variants aren't really complete.

And as the vtables are already huge, I expect them to be split. But this 
should be transparent to existing code.

> Nicholas Clark

leo