Rationale behind removal of DynLexPad dynpmc, OpenGL and SDL bindings

Allison Randal allison at parrot.org
Wed Mar 6 19:08:43 UTC 2013


On 03/06/2013 06:25 AM, Gerhard R. wrote:
> 
> However, 'user-level' bindings like OpenGL and SDL need not be kept around:
> 
[...]
> 
> If our main focus is no longer providing convenient hooks for
> different HLLs but rather Rakudo performance, allocating a PMC *on*
> *every* *call* just so we can stash a LexInfo pointer is pointless.
> (The custom Perl6LexPad does a bit more, but the Parrot-provided
> counterpart already resides in the CallContext and could be replaced
> with the Perl6 version).

This all sounds good. Thanks for summarizing the rationale.

Allison


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