Nathan Sidwell writes: > > I question if it is better to fold early. As I've said before, I think > the optimizations that fold performs should be turned into a proper SSA > optimization phase% -- that can be repeatedly applied as necessary. In the > front end, folding should not generally be done.
There have been several occasions on which I've fixed bugs caused by the fact that folding that is legal in C and C++ has not been legal in Java. It might be that moving folding away from the front end will be good, but we'd still need support for initialized constant decls. Andrew
