[Cardinal-dev] Re: IMCC 0.0.3 beefs up

[Dan Sugalski]

At 7:45 PM -0400 6/13/02, Melvin Smith wrote:
> I do not like the fact that we have to use keyed access at a low level
> to accomplish this, so I hope we consider adding random access
> to stacks.

It's on the list--it's just never gotten implemented. Time to fix 
that, I think. We've added (or are working on adding) real integer 
access to arrays without keys, but that's not in, and this will 
likely be faster.

> If you haven't looked at IMCC, we've written a complete
> register allocator that you can map symbolic variables to. This means
> that anyone that wishes to write a compiler for Parrot can just
> emit code for IMCC and let it handle the dirty work of VM register
> allocation, spillage, peephole optimization, constant expression
> evaluation, etc.

And Yay, Melvin! (And Angel!)
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                                        Dan

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