[OT] RE: counter++ versus "add 1 to counter"

[Alejandro Tejada]

on Thu, 25 Mar 2004
Brian Yennie wrote: 
> Has anyone ever considered
> writing an optimizer for 
> Transcript, that does basic stuff like unrolling
> loops, killing dead 
> branches, etc? It would probably even be possible to
> pre-process 
> scripts to make sure they use "repeat for each" when
> necessary, and 
> other much-discussed optimizations.

This is an important subject and it requires
his own article in revJournal or his own chapter in
the forthcoming Dan Shafer's books.

Does exist products able to do this kind of 
optimization in other interpreted languages like
java, perl or javascript?

In Rev this could be implemented as a series of
warnings to the developer that pops to screen
after applying a script to an object.

al

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