Dan Sugalski:
# At 10:51 AM 10/26/2001 -0400, Jason Gloudon wrote:
# >On Fri, Oct 26, 2001 at 06:54:32AM -0700, Brent Dax wrote:
# >
# > > What if I want my compiler to be lazy? Do you have the
# right to punish
# > > me for my laziness by making me add constant folding to
# my optimizer (or
# > > perhaps making me *write* an optimizer just to do
# constant folding)?
# >
# >You don't have to fold constants :
#
# More importantly, the answer to the preceeding question can be "Yes".
#
# If it turns out we need to trim back the number of opcode
# functions, the
# "all constants" variant is going to be the first to go. While
# that can't
# necessarily be done completely at compile time for PMC constants, for
# string, integer, and numeric constants it usually can be.
So why don't we wait until we decide we don't have enough opcodes?
Smells like premature optimization to me.
--Brent Dax
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