On Friday, 21 December 2012 at 10:30:21 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
On 12/21/2012 2:13 AM, Max Samukha wrote:What Walter is wrong about is that bytecode is entirely pointless.I'll bite. What is its advantage over source code?
Interpreting the AST directly: Requires recursion. Interpreting a (stack based) bytecode: Does not require recursion.That's what an AST to bytecode tranformation does; it eliminates the recursion. And that is far from being useless.
