A PAST Optimization Framework for Parrot

by Tyler Curtis for The Perl Foundation

Currently, very few, if any, optimizations are automatically applied by Parrot to code running on it. Any optimizations must be implemented in the specific compilers or at a low level, resulting in some compilers, such as Not Quite Perl, lacking even very useful optimizations such as tail call elimination. With a simple common framework for easily implementing optimizations, it will be much easier for HLLs on Parrot to be optimized more powerfully and perform more quickly.