At 12:36 AM 9/25/2001 +1000, Andrew J Bromage wrote:
>G'day all.
>
>On Mon, Sep 24, 2001 at 10:27:24AM -0400, Michael Maraist wrote:
>
> > Does it have to be in the instruction stream to be useful?
>
>No, of course not. I said "instruction" because that's how I saw it
>implemented last, but that was in a compiler backend, not in a virtual
>machine specification.
>
>"Annotation" would be more accurate.
This stuff's all slated to be in what the parser hands to the compiler, and
what the compiler hands to the optimizer. It'll be in the bytecode file
on-disk, just not in the instruction stream itself.
Dan
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