Ticket #1645 (new RFC)

Opened 12 years ago

Last modified 10 years ago

Request for another overload to 'not' opcode.

Reported by: shockwave Owned by:
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Component: none Version: 2.3.0
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Description

The docs page:  http://docs.parrot.org/parrot/latest/html/src/ops/cmp.ops.html

...mentions 2 overloads for opcode 'not':

not(out INT, in INT)
not(out PMC, invar PMC)

It would be sweet to have another overload for opcode 'not'.

not(out INT, invar PMC)

This would avoid the need for boxing of the operands in many cases.

Change History

Changed 12 years ago by plobsing

It is not that easy. The "logical_not" vtable, around which not_p_p is based, returns a PMC. So the vtable, not the op, is doing the boxing.

To avoid a box operation, we'd need to add a new vtable and a new op. We're trying to cut down on bloat of both op and vtable sets, so -1 to this course of action.

A case could be made that logical_not should return an intval (or maybe even be removed in favour of using get_bool).

Changed 11 years ago by bacek

Hello.

+1 to remove "logical_not" vtable and implement "op not" in terms of .get_bool.

-- Bacek

Changed 10 years ago by bacek

Hello.

cotto, can we have some resolution on this?

-- Bacek

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