SquirrelJME/SquirrelJME

# 2014/12/02

***DISCLAIMER***: _These notes are from the defunct k8 project which_
_precedes SquirrelJME. The notes for SquirrelJME start on 2016/02/26!_
_The k8 project was effectively a Java SE 8 operating system and as such_
_all of the notes are in the context of that scope. That project is no_
_longer my goal as SquirrelJME is the spiritual successor to it._

## 04:42

What I can do with flow control is visualize it with dot graphs and then use
vigraph to see how it looks.

## 05:30

And I made those graphviz dots so I can determine how the flow happens through
a method, would be handy for generation so I can confirm whether the
translation to a register based virtual machine is valid by looking at some
graphs.

## 05:51

Some of these graphs are gigantic and I cannot render them as PNGs because
they are so large for some methods. I could probably reduce the graph size if
I remove lots of arguments.

## 08:10

Looking at some of the generated graphs there are gotos right after
comparisons but that is most likely just the lack of some information in the
graphs.

## 08:27

I can reuse the stack op stuff, but I need something better for storage when
it is actually used.

## 12:47

I might be able to make better graphs by grouping exceptions together in
blocks rather than having single lines spit out of all the exception zones.
Could work as clusters possibly.

## 13:56

Except that nodes cannot exist in multiple clusters at the same time which is
rather a let down. I would have to specially handle this by making new
subgraphs where there are shared nodes with exceptions.

## 14:31

Might be best to have a single graph generating API so that I do not duplicate
code when I need to generate graphs of sorts. This would also be handy when I
generate graphs of the register form too.