Simon Cozens sent the following bits through the ether:
> If you don't know what Python's CodeObjects look like, I suggest
> you go see it now.
I've been spendind a lot of time recently looking at the Java
classfile specification. Yes, they were trying to optimise for space,
but there are some interesting pieces. For example, the actual
bytecode for a method is a "Code" attribute[1] attached to the method
(other attributes such as line number information etc. can also be
part of it). The constant pool is the scary part, but interesting. Why
not have a look, although we may want to generalise a bit more:
http://java.sun.com/docs/books/vmspec/html/ClassFile.doc.html
Leon
[1] No, attributes aren't limited to four characters. Let's
be modern about this...
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