[kw-pm] November kw.pm Meeting: Opcodes Illustrated

[fishbulb]

Since there were a number of newcomers last month who were
relatively new (or completely new) to Perl, I'd like to note that
this talk is not as technical, scary or indepth as the
description makes it sound.

Despite the words opcode, bytecode, optimizer, and feeding,
this talk:

  * assumes no knowledge of Perl internals
  * assumes no C knowledge, and in fact involves no C
  * requires no particular Perl knowledge, though you should
    understand basic concepts like conditionals, loops,
    assignment and so on (in general terms)

Eric

---- original message : 2007-11-15 10:48am : Daniel R. Allen ----

> Last month had freebie magazines and catalogs from APress.  This month, we
> have free CF bulbs, courtesy www.porchlight.ca, who has a grant to give
> one CF bulb to every single Canadian household.  So come for the talk,
> stay for the pizza and lightbulb.  Or, the other way around if you prefer.
>
> -Daniel
>
> On Tue, 13 Nov 2007, Daniel R. Allen wrote:
>
> >
> > Just a quick reminder that the November meeting is this Thursday.
> >
> > Thursday, November 15, 2007, 7pm
> >
> > Opcodes Illustrated
> >
> > fishbot has been playing around feeding opcode trees into GraphViz to
> > reveal how various language constructs get compiled to bytecode. Compiled
> > Perl turns out to be pretty interesting, once you can see it in living
> > colour. Possibly talk will go as far of as the peephole optimizer, but at
> > the very least, will demonstrate the bytecode behind key language
> > features.
> >
> > Meeting is in BMH 1035 at the University of Waterloo, directions
> > are here:
> >
> > http://kw.pm.org/wiki/index.cgi?FAQ
> >
> > Also as usual, our pizza is sponsored by $anonymous++.  Please RSVP
> > here by 5pm on Thursday:
> >
> > http://kw.pm.org/wiki/index.cgi?PizzaList
> >
> > As always, meeting is open to all interested.  As always, we will
> > retire for beer and conversation at a local establishment
> > afterwards.
> >
> >
> >
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