Deprecate .HLL_map

NotFound julian.notfound at gmail.com
Sun Jan 25 18:21:20 UTC 2009


> I also kicked around the idea of an "hllmap" opcode, which should be a
> significant performance win over having to call getinterp and then the
> "hll_map" method after that. I'm willing to do whatever needs to get
> done to fix the situation, but deprecating .HLL_map and using the
> "hll_map" method instead is a path of least resistance.

I don't think an opcode will give any noticeable performance impact,
even when loading a language that use a lot of maps. And the impact in
the pbc size will be just a few bytes.

-- 
Salu2


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