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On 12/7/2012 9:39 AM, martinwguy wrote:
On 7 December 2012 02:04, Elijah Frederickson wrote:Lua Assembly Tools is a library, in pure Lua, for bytecode manipulation.That-s interesting. Would that make it possible to optimize the bytecode post-compilation, to rewrite constant expressions with a constant value and so on? If so, do you know of any work in this area?
Oh yeah, it's a gleam in the eyes of many folks here, I think. :-) Unfortunately we have manpower constraints...
Personally I have not heard of anyone optimizing bytecode in this way, though. Given X hours, the benefits of bytecode -> bytecode processing are unclear. Tough to spend X hours on it...
I would prefer to spend time on optimization of source code rather than bytecode. The closest would be manipulating the AST in Metalua, but I dunno if anyone has done substantial work on this topic.
-- Cheers, Kein-Hong Man (esq.) Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia