On 05/15/2016 01:58 PM, Daniel Murphy wrote: > The biggest advantage of bytecode is not the interpreter speed, it's > that by lowering you can substitute VarExps etc with actual references > to memory without modifying the AST. > > By working with something lower level than the AST, you should end up > with something much less complex and with fewer special cases.
Which is a bad assessment, you can stick variable indexes into VarDeclaration (we already do that) and thereby access them in O(1). Converting control flow and references into byte code is far from trivial, we're talking about another s2ir and e2ir here. -Martin
