On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 3:59 PM, Matt Fowles <[email protected]> wrote:
> I agree that variable minimalization could definitely be useful long term,
> but my understanding is that it is an expensive optimization to compute.
> One other nice benefit of this is that (for debugging), you can go
> Ruby -> Ruby IR (CFG) -> Janino AST -> Java src
> We make heavy use of struct types, so a lot of primitive operations expand
> to several statements and it makes the debug cycle faster for initial
> development if you can see the code you are genning.

Now that could be very useful :) And for Duby, that would eliminate
the need for a separate .java backend like we have right now.

- Charlie

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