At 5:20 PM +0200 8/2/02, Jerome Vouillon wrote:
>   > Waving my hands somewhat more quickly, as an optimization, lexicals can

> >  just live in registers when the compiler sees no references to %MY or

> >  closures.  Nastiness like eval and caller.MY can be handled by inserting

> >  fixup code to reconstruct the lexical array on demand.

> 

> caller.MY is especially nasty because you have to pay for it even when

> you don't use it: you can't know whether a function has to support it

> just by looking at the function code.  It will be really tricky to

> implement any optimization if one can write things like:

>    caller(1).MY{'$y'} := $x


Please note that, regardless of what this sort of thing gets in the 
way of, it'll *still* be as fast or faster than perl 5. Which is the 
ultimate goal, the rest being a bit of a bonus.
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                                         Dan

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