From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
Date: 2003-01-06T09:32:31+09:00
Subject: Re: Compile time constant folding?

Hi,

In message "Compile time constant folding?"
    on 03/01/06, Dan Sugalski <dan@sidhe.org> writes:

|Here's a quick question, now that parrot's close to getting object 
|support and the cardinal folks are on their way to a working parser...
|
|Is it valid to do compile-time constant folding as an optimization?

I didn't take it, because

  * every method may be redefined (e.g. "+") in dynamic languages.

  * besides, foldable expressions are rather simple, so that it does
    not save much time.

The latter assumption may not be true for Parrot, which has much
faster and more optimized runtime.

							matz.