The only comment I might make is that anytime you have a function you're passing craploads of parameters to, that you may be in a position where you'd be better served by using an object to manage the storage. Internally (in methods inside the class), you can go ahead and keep referencing things directly for speed.

If I understand your architecture properly, you have several invariants that are getting set up in sortofcompileit on every call; if you pulled those out into package variables and set them up once (with an init method/sub), you'd save time on every subsequent call.

And this it totally headed in a good direction - real "compilation" of the aXML code! If you memoized (cf. Memoize) the calls to sortofcompile, you might be able to get another free speedup from Memoize's caching. As long as a given parameter set always results in the same output, Memoize will help. If there are side effects that might change the result, then it won't help (e.g., memoizing a random number generator would make it seriously unusable, if very fast!).

In reply to Re: rough start of an axml compiler by pemungkah
in thread rough start of an axml compiler by Logicus

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