Is this a sane idea?

[Brett Morgan <morganb@news.com.au>]

I am, for various reasons, not all of which are classifiable sane :-),
thinking about writing java code that generates classfiles, then loads
those classes and runs them. (In passing, I am attempting to do some
Genetic Algorithm stuff, and writing an interpreter on top of another
interpreter sounded kind of silly.)

Of the various ways of generating class files - writing out java files
and thence calling the sparsely documented tools.jar compiler over it,
or mucking semi-directly with class files using various class file
hackers - i liked the sound of programatically creating grimple code
sounded the nicest.

So, first off, is programatically creating a grimple IR, and then
using soot to create a class file from this IR, a sane approach to
writing a mini-compiler? Is there some demo code some where of doing
something like this somewhere? 

brett

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