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		ww520 12 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Flattening ASTs and other compiler data structures... This is a fantastic idea. AST works well in an array based allocation block since it has no need for freeing individual nodes. It’s an add-only allocation.

JonChesterfield 12 months ago [–]

What about transforming the AST after it is built, or deriving a new tree which partly aliases the original in persistent structure fashion?

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