From: Darren New <dnew@...>
Date: 2002-11-12T03:46:30+09:00
Subject: Re: A vision for Parrot

Benjamin Goldberg wrote:
> In all cases that I can think of, your dynamic code is essentially a
> string which gets eval()ed (with a language-dependent eval).  The
> solution is to make the eval() function/operator compile into a sequence
> of operations along the lines of: Load the compiler for this language,
> (if it's not already loaded), pass that string to the compiler, run the
> generated bytecode.

Seems like an awful lot of overhead for every keystroke, window event,
and async file operation.