Re: [Help-smalltalk] docstring patches for RB*, STCompiler optimizing?

[Paolo Bonzini]

Stephen Compall wrote:
> On the compiler/ code:
>
> Would you accept patches (no commitments here, but) that add
> docstrings to the public interface of the Refactory parsing and
> scanning classes?
>
> Does STCompiler currently perform the optimizations performed by the
> primitive compiler accessible by Behavior>>#compileString:,
> Stream>>#fileIn etc.?  I cannot find any code that would suggest it
> would, but I am perhaps overlooking something.
>   
If you refer to peephole optimizations and combining multiple bytecodes 
in one, that 's done automatically when you create a CompiledMethod.  
Methods such as #compileWhileLoop: take care of optimizing #whileTrue: 
etc.  The only missing optimization is the inlined version of #to:do: 
and #to:by:do:.

Paolo