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I will send the patches afterthis, but the changes are in the codegen branch at git://github.com/ggoossen/perl.git or to view the commits https://github.com/ggoossen/perl/commits/codegen * Small summary: Before executing a subroutine/optree, there is a codegeneration step added where the optree is converted in an "instruction" list (consisting of pp_* functions with arguments). As a result the optree does no longer function as an execution list, i.e op_next is gone. * Delayed constant folding. Constants folding is now done at execution time instead of compiletime. Fixes bugs where constant folding interfered with the semantic analysis, for example with a bareword in constant folded expressions being interpreted as filehandle. Also it allows warnings about precedence involving constants. * Details about the change The peep hole hook is removed. There is the possibility to replace it with Perl_finish_optree and Perl_finish_op, which perform a similar function as the old peep, (at the end of making the otree they go recursively through the optree, performing some final checks/changes). All B modules work (although some things like the optree in execution order are obviously removed), but the changes I made are not backwards-compatible. Changes from API function as exported by embed.fnc: - op_linklist is removed, but could be added back as a no-op. - debop replaced by debug_instruction. But "debop" could be kept. - Make OP* arguments const OP*, also requires PL_op to be a const OP* Signature of pp_* function have changed. Also the current code isn't really optimized, there are some obvious optimizations, like changing some of the accessor functions to macros, which are not yet done. All tests pass on linux and windows (ignoring all previously failing tests on windows). Gerard GoossenThread Next