Re: Editing/storing syntax trees

Preston Briggs <preston@tera.com> wrote:
] But you do (or anyway I do) care. Consider Time x Space. Most of the
] time, on my system, my programs lie about on disk in source form --
] perhaps even in compressed source form. Very occasionally, I compile
] one of them. The scanner and parser build the (larger) syntax tree
] form, very quickly, and the optimizer pores over it, and it's thrown
] away.
]
] In your approach, the big form exists all the time. Somebody pays for
] that Space x Time.


I don't see why the syntax tree should be that much bigger than ASCII. Noone
asked to store the syntax tree with all the data/control flow and whatnot
information. Just the bare syntax tree.




Stefan
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