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On Wed, Dec 03, 2008 at 10:57:16PM +0100, Rafael Garcia-Suarez wrote:
> 2008/12/3 Matt S Trout <matt-p5p@trout.me.uk>:
> > I'd like to be able to do much of what the compiler is able to currently.
> >
> > I'm also aware that's a lot of API to maintain.
> >
> > But at the very least I think we should consider current CPAN usages to be
> > a baseline - "some sort of op creation callback" plus "a way to construct your
> > own optree (fragments) and turn them into something runnable" plus "a way to
> > run an optree fragment" - though I wouldn't horribly mind building a proper
> > CV and executing it normally, I worry about the performance for that when
> > trying to do clever things like building macros (also when writing keywords
> > that take an expr ala map/grep, rather than just ones that take a sub).
>
> That's true. An optree constructed by hand is made "runnable" by
> linklist. Actually it's a good way to describe what linklist does.
> That would be a good argument to make linklist public.
Yeah, I suspect it is - especially given B::Generate currently duplicates
this logic in perl-space.
Seems like something that perhaps should not only be public but maybe in
the B::OP API so that people replacing the optimiser can call it easily?
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