Re: [TCLCORE] Is Tcl bytecode engine is also *in the far future* going to LLVM?

[Donal K. F. <don...@ma...>]

Simon Geard wrote:
> Does Parrot (http://code.google.com/p/partcl) provide an upgrade path 
> for the VM ?

In a word, no. It's got a deep assumption about mutable values that is
incompatible with Tcl. That (plus our significantly more sophisticated
variable model) would mean that we'd need to implement our value and
variable systems as extra layers on top of the Parrot primitives, which
would almost certainly destroy most of the benefits; the sophisticated
compilation strategy I talked about earlier would still be needed to get
real performance.

Donal.