Re: Realtime cost of call by value

[John W. Eaton]

On 29-Oct-2003, Glenn Golden <address@hidden> wrote:

| Amazing that you have time to work the
| mailing list so closely and still keep your day job. :)

Octave is a big part of my day job.

| There is one nagging question though: How does the interpreter
| manage to allow functions to operate directly on globals and
| avoid the copydown? Tomer's example seems to show unequivocally
| that this is the case... if so, isn't there some kind of parlor
| game that I could play in a DLD, strictly for one-time use, that
| would duplicate this behavior?

Yes, probably, but it would be very ugly because the functions that do
that are starting with octave_value_list objects as indices.

jwe



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