Nicholas Clark:
> Specifically:
> Why are we back to a single file assembler in pure perl?
> Why is it being proposed to be split up again?
> Are we going round in circles, or do the changes represent a spiral?
My design decisions for what *I* did, in rewriting the original assembler:
1) De-bloat the core bytecode reading/writing code.
2) De-bloat the assembler code, and make it much smaller and easier to
understand.
3) Reduce code duplication.
4) Make it *deliberately hard* to do clever stuff with assembler.pl, because
this is only a prototype, and Real Compilers will probably be written in C.
5) Remove assembly syntax which is only there for human consumption, to force
people to make higher-level tools such as imcc.
"Make it faster" was a happy consequence, not a deliberate decision.
It's my opinion that it went from there back to pure-Perl because people here
are happier handling pure Perl than XS. Jeff may have to correct me on that.
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