Compiler concept

[Adam D. Ruppe via Digitalmars-d]

On Tuesday, 13 December 2016 at 01:03:54 UTC, Ignacious wrote:
> Would it be difficult to implement the following, or something 
> with similar capabilities, as a patch to dmd?

It would be pretty hard to do with dmd because compiled code 
isn't designed for modification, but it wouldn't be too hard to 
do with an interpreter, which uses a tree of nodes already 
anyway. Dynamic (and JIT VM based) languages often use this kind 
of thing internally for optimizations and sometimes for 
self-modifying code.