Rope PMC (was Re: Why has pbc_to_exe become unusable?)

[Patrick R. Michaud]

On Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 09:34:11AM -0700, Jonathan Leto wrote:
> A Rope PMC sounds like a great idea. 

Speaking primarily from the perspective of most existing HLLs, 
having a Rope PMC in core won't obviate the need for Parrot
to efficiently handle large numbers of string concatenation
operations.  Many HLL programs will have loops that result
in many repeated string concatenations, and these will still
need to be fast when the compiler isn't able to somehow figure
out a way to map the HLL source into a Rope-based solution.

Pm