Re: MOO into C

• Date: Wed, 24 Jul 1996 15:06:00 PDT
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  dg@dcs.st-and.ac.uk
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• In-Reply-To: abakun@scinc.com's message of Wed, 24 Jul 96 13:31:30 -0500. <199607241831.NAA08611@forney.scinc.com>

[...]
>If all meaningful programs will decompile, does that mean they are
>reversable and that a decompiled optmized method will recompile into a
>usable form?

That was what I was meaning, yes. If so, then integrating an optimiser would 
be as simple as a optimise() builtin (you'd still have to write it, of 
course). If optimised code is *not* decompilable, then things would be a lot 
more complicated because you'd have to save the text version or the 
unoptimised version of the code for making future modifications.

[...]
>I write code like this all the time.  I've been known to do:
>
>if (valid(object = (su = $string_utils):match_object(the_string)))

Ah, so some of the horrible obfuscations in LambdaCore are *your* fault. :)
Religious wars over code style aside, I prefer slightly verbose but easily 
understood code, and I would like it to *stay* that way unless I explicitly 
say I want it optimised, rather than mysterious behind-the-scenes 
autoobfuscation.

>>Things would get even more 
>>complicated if the optimiser could identify chunks of independent code and 
>>rearrange them to allow this. b = (a = 1) + (b = 1) + (c = 1), anybody?
>
>I hope these are only examples of optmiziations, since saving a stack
>manlipulation operation isn't much in terms of savings.

Just examples, yes. I couldn't think of any more meaningful examples.

[...]

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