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

[Daniel R. Allen]

Well, that's a fun URL mixup: I meant www.projectporchlight.com, not the
local ISP of the similar name.  Oops. :)

-Daniel

On Thu, 15 Nov 2007, Daniel R. Allen wrote:

> 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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