At 10:44 PM -0700 10/25/02, Brent Dax wrote:
Well, on thinking a bit about this, there's no reason that we have to worry--it's perfectly OK for us to declare, unconditionally, that segment 0 is always bytecode, 1 line number info, and so on, with everything after position X (for some value of X) left up in the air. A bit dodgy, true, as it means that any new known segment types we add in will be floating, but I don't think we're going to end up with too many performance-critical pieces in the bytecode. (Arguably it's just the bytecode itself, the symbols, and the constants, as the rest are looked at under exceptional circumstances or on (rare) demand)I was thinking in terms of what TYPE: stores; it seems you were thinking about how you identify a particular segment. Yeah, you can probably get away with just numbering the segments, although that might slow things down a bit when you're looking for a particular type of segment. (In foo.pbc, the line location segment might be 1, but in bar.pbc, it's 2.)
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