Squawks of the Parrot

Dan Sugalski
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On new things
Quick notes on party prep #6
Quick notes on party prep #5
Quick notes on party prep #4
Quick notes on party prep #3
Quick notes on party prep, #2
Quick notes on party prep #1
You know times have changed
You know it's going to be a heck of a party...
On the utility of benchmark implementations

Building a compiler
Wow, that is expensive


Cola notes
Concessions to hardware
Which language is it anyway?


Musings on VM design
Template-driven code
Banging on blocks of data
Fun with transactional programming environments
Threading primitives for a new machine
Looking sideways at paradigms


Parrot Notes
The Parrot post-mortem
Keeping everything in context
The much-delayed presentation notes
Strings, revisited
Starting the long slide to standardization
Multimethod dispatch for fun and profit
Why parrot in production?
Converging on a first approximation of performant


Pie-thon
After the pie-thon
Mmmm, pie!
Ah, right--new Python::Bytecode
Functiony goodness
Python, Pie-thon, and lexical scopes
New version to play with
Python::Bytecode
Plan B


Tornado
On the utility of benchmark implementations
The game of life
Tornado 0.05
There's something just not right about that...
Now with perly goodness
Template-driven code
Release early and often!
Announcing Tornado version 0.01


What could've been
WCB: Async IO
WCB: Pluggable bytecode loaders
WCB: Full bytecode metadata
WCB: Notifications
WCB: Loadable opcode libraries
WCB: Overridable opcodes


What the heck is:
What the heck is: Finalization
What the heck is: A type
What the heck is: A string
What the heck is: A tail call
What the heck is: Garbage Collection
What the heck is: multimethod dispatch (MMD) good for?
What the heck is: Multimethod dispatch (MMD)
What the heck is: Continuation Passing Style (CPS)


What the heck was I thinking?
WWIT: Making the destination exist
WWIT: Universal bytecode
WWIT: Calling conventions
WWIT: Fast interpretation
WWIT: All those opcodes
WWIT: Generating executables


What would I do differently?
WWIDD: Assertions on code's properties
WWIDD: MMD everywhere


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