Compilation strategy

[Rob T]

On Monday, 17 December 2012 at 21:47:36 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
>
> There is no substantive difference between bytecode and source 
> code, as I've been trying to explain. It is not superior in any 
> way, (other than being shorter, and hence less costly to 
> transmit over the internet).
>

I mentioned in a previous post that we should perhaps focus on 
making the .di concept more efficient rather than focus on 
obfuscation.

Shorter file sizes is a potential use case, and you could even 
allow a distributor of byte code to optionally supply in 
compressed form that is automatically uncompressed when 
compiling, although as a trade off that would add on a small 
compilation performance hit.

--rt