Traversing a binary

[Thomas Lindgren]

--- Erik Stenman <erik.stenman@REDACTED> wrote:

> You could also traverse the binary without creating
> new sub-binaries, by 
> keeping
> track of how many byte-pairs you have seen (N):

Nice trick. Perhaps something for a compiler to
consider?

I can think of two things here:

- Adding notation for indexing into binaries (like
indexing into arrays), which would just be syntactic
sugar for what you're doing above;

- Eliminating sub-binaries by replacing their
selection with indexing as above ... but done
automatically. Something for a high level optimizer
perhaps?

Best,
Thomas



		
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