Re: Intermediate compiling

Niklas Elmqvist <croziys@algonet.se> wrote:


> The problem is that parsing this (the text string) during run-time is
> not very efficient (i.e. slow). We got pointed in the direction of
> compiling the catches into some pseudo-binary code, i.e. code that is
> very fast for the MUD to read (a bunch of byte opcodes), but which is
> not true binary code.


Well, if you were willing to change the syntax a little bit, you could
use java instead. Chances are there is already an implementation on
your platform, but you can also make a quick little interpreter for
yourself (or license one). The main benefit of this is that it will
use a reasonably standard language & compiled format which is much
quicker interpreted than re-parsing the source. And you should be
able to use other people's code without having to design and implement
your own compilers, virtual machines, etc.


Tcl is also a good idea, although I'd lean towards java for something
like this for a number of reasons.


                                                                                                                        Eugene Kuznetsov
                                                                                                                        kuznetso@mit.edu
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