Re: Rewriting the assembler

[Melvin Smith]

                                                                                       
                                                 
                      Simon Cozens                                                     
                                                 
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                                               Subject:  Rewriting the assembler       
                                                 
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>First, I think that our assembler is going to be a reference
implementation
>for those producing bytecode-emitting compilers. It does not need to be
>fast, but it does need to be clear and easy to understand.

Thank you!

I'm with Simon, the key word here is "REFERENCE" implementation.
I want a freaking assembler that I can hack quickly, not the
perfectly written one that will eventually make its way out of
much reworking, etc. etc.

If this means a long piece of inlined Perl, so be it.

"PRODUCTION" implementation is a different story.

-Melvin Smith

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