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in reply to Re^5: getting rid of special features
in thread getting rid of costly special features

For the records I didn't mean any specific "perl2js" or "python2js" implementation.

> ... or just run perl2js --opt assume_increment_is_numeric=1

ATM his is the only mode that perlito knows!

But if you need to be sure that the Perl¹ side does the same thing, you will end up in overloading ++, hence considerably slowing down the Perl side.

Cheers Rolf

¹) is there any name for the standard interpreter/compiler? "CPerl" maybe? ;)