Re: [Gauche-devel] Thinking again about parameters in the VM

[Kiril Z. <k....@me...>]

Shiro, have you already started working on this, or should I put something together? I think it might be possible to implement entirely in Scheme without touching any C code. Maybe not =)

On 2012-01-14, at 1:28 AM, Shiro Kawai <sh...@la...> wrote:

> From: Kirill Zorin <k....@me...>
> Subject: Re: [Gauche-devel] Thinking again about parameters in the VM
> Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2012 23:08:03 -0500
> 
>> One way would be to create a global table that holds all parameters
>> ever initialized (per module, I suppose, since the module system is
>> global as well) paired with their initial values. 
> 
> Yes, that's what I have in mind now.
> 
>> The only thing that's probably bad is that now parameter creation is
>> serialized... I'm not sure how much of a handicap it is in
>> practice.
> 
> I don't think it's much problem, for typical parameters are
> create at toplevel, when a module is loaded.  That happens only
> once per module.
> 
> Parameters can be created locally, but that's not common, and
> Gauche's current implementation doesn't handle such case well
> anyway (for example, parameters won't be GC-ed)
> 
> --shiro
> 
> 
> 
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