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George Dietrich
@Blacksmoke16
and have another for the response that describes the response
moe
@moe:busyloop.net
[m]
yup. i'll dig more into it in the coming days.
George Dietrich
@Blacksmoke16
could use the validation component for that ;)
but sounds good :+1:
Hayden Jones
@wrq
does crystal having anything like timeit for python? I've never profiled before, but I'm trying to determine where to use Structs and where to use tuples and such in a large data model, and I was hoping to put together numbers for the performance of each design
George Dietrich
@Blacksmoke16
structs and tuples are both on the stack so they'd be essentially the same. Is suggested to use structs over tuples/namedtuples majority of the time anyway
Hayden Jones
@wrq
okay, that makes sense
thank you
George Dietrich
@Blacksmoke16
but to answer your question, i'd checkout https://crystal-lang.org/api/master/Benchmark.html
Hayden Jones
@wrq
AH, okay. I'm embarrassed that I missed that, what an obvious name for it
jwaldrip
@jwaldrip:matrix.org
[m]
Is 1.4 dropping today?
I saw the release nodes reference todays date
George Dietrich
@Blacksmoke16
sure looks like it, or if not very soon
based on https://forum.crystal-lang.org/t/upcoming-crystal-1-4-release/4492, should be today yea
jwaldrip
@jwaldrip:matrix.org
[m]
Does the new version still require a compile time flag to get the interpreter?
Or is it enabled by default now?
George Dietrich
@Blacksmoke16
still need to manually build it with the flag
moe
@moe:busyloop.net
[m]
https://github.com/crystal-lang/crystal/runs/5855525656?check_suite_focus=true go go go
Hayden Jones
@wrq

I want to implement something like a dispatch table for a series of pseudo-bytecode instructions. I'd like to lookup each instruction and then yield my little VM to a proc, and execute each instruction that way.

Is this wise? And also, I don't see a yield_self method, am I missing something crucial?

George Dietrich
@Blacksmoke16
there is https://crystal-lang.org/reference/1.3/syntax_and_semantics/blocks_and_procs.html#with-yield
Hayden Jones
@wrq
oh, that's wonderful. thanks again. I swear I actually can read, I guess I just overlook all the good stuff!
George Dietrich
@Blacksmoke16
iirc there are some issues with tho
so debatable if its worth just not declaring a block arg
but if it works fine for your use case :+1:
Hayden Jones
@wrq
Do you think it makes more sense then to just implement all the bytecodes as methods under the main VM class? I had already thought of that, but it just seemed inelegant. I haven't worked with a statically typed language before, so I don't really have the right intuition for this sort of thing. If it were ruby, I would just have the VM object be very simple and then have a big hash of procs as the values and use yield_self to execute them by passing in the vm object
George Dietrich
@Blacksmoke16
Got some example code?
Hayden Jones
@wrq
https://play.crystal-lang.org/#/r/d010
doesn't compile, just a quick example I crapped out
I'm writing my own Push interpreter
but that's the general idea for execution
From IRC (bridge bot)
@FromIRC
<riza> @wrq it seems like a good use of a macro to generate a dispatch method based off of some classes or methods
<riza> i suppose it depends on how many instructions are in your instruction set
Hayden Jones
@wrq
I've been dreading learning macros, but that's because I'm lazy
George Dietrich
@Blacksmoke16
any reason to not just have them as methods on vm versus passing that in?
would have to benchmark what would be more performant, but i imagine having methods on the same type would be than a bunch of procs
Hayden Jones
@wrq
I have no clue, but I trust your intuition and I suppose I'll just do it that way
From IRC (bridge bot)
@FromIRC
<riza> the benefit to macros is you can generate code which is very performant but still maintainable, paying the conversion cost at compile time rather than at runtime
<riza> going along with what Blacksmoke has suggested, you could easily make a macro that collects all the methods on your VM class, filters out methods with a prefix, and generates the parser/dispatcher for that
<riza> So adding an instruction to your bytecode is as simple as defining a method called instruction_add
Hayden Jones
@wrq
right, I definitely want to do as much as possible before runtime. Alright, well this has been very helpful information. I suppose I'll spend some time with macros and do it with methods.
Ary Borenszweig
@asterite
Always start without macros. Add macros if you find repetition in your code
Hayden Jones
@wrq
I gotta get used to that. I am not a huge fan of metaprogramming in Ruby, I've always envied the FP style of things. I know that macros aren't exactly the same and offer much stronger guarantees. I'm reading up now on macros in crystal.
moe
@moe:busyloop.net
[m]
https://i.imgur.com/187wXkm.png
Benjamin Wade
@RespiteSage
Is there an issue/PR for ordering of classes affecting method overload resolution? E.g. https://play.crystal-lang.org/#/r/cytw vs https://play.crystal-lang.org/#/r/cytv
I know about crystal-lang/crystal#9750, but I think that's a bit different, since this isn't exactly a method ordering difference.
George Dietrich
@Blacksmoke16
could try with crystal-lang/crystal#10711
Benjamin Wade
@RespiteSage
Good idea. It looks like the "put the most specific first" advice does work for this, but I had forgotten which way it worked (first vs most recent).
Benjamin Wade
@RespiteSage
Unless I'm doing something wrong, neither crystal-lang/crystal#10711 nor crystal-lang/crystal#11840 fix it...
Ary Borenszweig
@asterite
Maybe describing your expectation would help. I don't understand what the issue is at a glance (too much code, no comments)
Quinton Miller
@HertzDevil
second example should print X-B and Y-B last, like the first one