Brett Cannon wrote:
> Is there a specific reason you are leaving out the AST, Greg, or do
> you count that as part of the bytecode compiler
No, I consider it part of the parser. My mental model
of parsing & compiling in the presence of a parse tree
is like this:
[source] -> scanner -> [tokens]
-> parser -> [AST] -> code_generator -> [code]
The fact that there still seems to be another kind of
parse tree in between the scanner and the AST generator
is an oddity which I hope will eventually disappear.
> I know
> Guido has said he doesn't like punishing the performance of small
> scripts in the name of large-scale apps
To me, that's an argument in favour of always generating
a .pyc, even for scripts.
Greg
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