Re: Supercompiled Perl

At 19:16 10-08-01, Andrei P. Nemytykh wrote:
>
> >"Andrei P. Nemytykh" wrote:
> >  I remember an idea ( by Sergei Romanenko ). He suggests
> >  to use supercompiler together with a meta-program. The meta-program
> >  has to be a part of a concrete operating system. It is a dispatcher
> >  of supercompilation.
> >  The program has to observe the behavior of users:
> >   - how often a concrete Perl-program is used ?
> >   - maybe, some arguments of a program have a constant intrivial
> >     properties, so its specialized version makes sense ?
> >   - maybe, something else ...
> >
> >  If the meta-program decides to transform a Perl-program, then it does
> >  that and creates a new residual version. After that any call to
> >  the original Perl-program ( within the chosen context ) is replaced
> >  with the residual version automatically.
>
>   This idea solves a number of problems of supercompilation.
>   For example,
>    -1-  Why are we in need to supercompile a program ?
>    -2-  Supercompilation can take much time to do deep transformations,
>         because of users do not wait of ending  the process at all.
>    -3-  What is more, a supercompiler can try different strategies of
>         the transformations to choose the best one.

Is the comparison of the results of applying different strategies based on 
statical analysis or on dynamic tests?

-- Helmut