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"We should store code as ASTs" "Yeah but ASTs are big, we should have a compression format" "But the most compressed form of an AST is code"
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why would the most compressed version of the AST be code? maybe gzipped code would be close.
You're missing the point of my tweet, ASTs are a terrible transport format for code if you care about size
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are they big? i guess i am not convinced. example?
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They are always bigger; they are the source code, annotated. Not same as a bytecode
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you are in js where you are marking up a bunch of stuff not expressed in the code and including that metadata in the AST?
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