Dan Sugalski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I was using .locals for the actual variables in the source program,
Well, you know it: .locals aren't vars. > and $Px for all the temps the compiler generated. I've been migrating > a lot of the code to use a few .local-defined hashes and indexing > into them, and it looks like that's the way to go. If you use a hash anyway, just use globals - this seems to match the target language's POV: $Px = global "foo" # fetch global "foo" = $Py # store If spilling is still needed, the spill code can be improved, if the variable already has a store (like a lexical or a global). Needs only cutting down the life range, and a refetch in the other locations of usage. This saves the store and simplifies spilling. But if you treat all your variables like that, there will be no spilling at all. > ... (This'd be easier > if this language had, y'know, actual subroutines and stuff...) Yep. leo
