Announcing E 0.8.4: The Birthday Release

[Bill Frantz]

At 11:42 AM 5/28/99 -0700, Mark S. Miller wrote:
>1) Code migration.  I think you were the one to suggest (I think based on 
>Python doing likewise) that compressed parse-trees were a better format for 
>transmission of untrusted code, where the receiver wants to both verify and 
>compile quickly.  Most of the time savings in not having the receiver 
>compile sources is actually from not having to lex and parse them.  
>Whatever time might be lost (if any) in compiling from trees rather than 
>virtual instructions is more than made up for by more straightforward 
>verification.

[+] Simple verifiers are more trustworthy than more complex ones.