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Re: RTL/tree (from gcc) and Scheme
On Sun, Aug 10, 2003 at 12:06:39PM -0700, Per Bothner wrote:
> Valery A.Khamenya wrote:
> >that's right. Trees and RTL are used for *compile-time* only now.
> >And here came my question: is it really *impossible* to change thing
> >and use RTL/tree in run-time?
>
> Of course it's not impossible. But what's the point? What do you
> mean by "using RTL/tree at run-time"? What are you trying to do?
>
Take for example the folding of arithmetic operations: one could
build trees and then use the folding for reducing them and finally
output the result.
I think that Valery is talking about a similar type of evaluation
through a graph rewriting system. We already have the infrastructure
needed for rewriting systems. I think also to the template instantiation
that makes use of similar rewriting systems on trees, but they are used
for the moment only at compile time.