Re: [Rapideuphoria-develop] dll.e and regex.e

[Chris C. <qua...@re...>]

  


On Mon, 01 Sep 2008 Matt Lewis wrote :
>On Mon, Sep 1, 2008 at 8:39 AM, Chris Covier <qua...@re...> wrote:
> >
> > If we agree that is it beneficial for the API from these files to go
> > builtin, this means that the fileswill disappear sooner or later.
> > Shouldn't this be done before releasing 4.0 alpha?
> >
> > Since all these are calls to machine_*, this means, for each of the 12
> > routines or so:
> > * copy-paste in Execute() the code found in the relevant branches of
> > Machine()'s big switch;. There will be some var name changes as a result;
> > * add standard type checking code, but this is mainly done in the above;
> > * Write appropriate C code in compile.e, as well as some BBtype code about
> > arg/retvals.
>
>The regex API makes sense to move.  Regex usage will often be
>performance critical, so moving it makes sense for that reason.
>
>What's the benefit for moving dll.e?  We'd still need dll.e for the
>constants, if nothing else.
>

1/ Avoids yet another include files, and scope gyrations in multifile applications;
2/ Since all the routines there are machine_calls, the bulk of C coding is done already. It mostly needs being scripted in compile.e.

Since the routines there are used only a few times at initialisation time, they are not time critical indeed. And chances that they are overridden are pretty smim - I don't know if annyone has ever done that. So, they can be hardcoded without any actual loss of flexibility.


CChris


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