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Lightweight Code Gen

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IronPython
DynamicLanguages LCG, a new feature in Whidbey:

It looks and feels much like Reflection.Emit but sharpens its focus to just the generation of methods and their IL. [1]

• http://blogs.msdn.com/joelpob/archive/2004/03/31/105282.aspx --hello, world... LCG (Lightweight Code Gen) style!
  • Code
• http://weblogs.asp.net/justin_rogers/archive/2004/04/10/110899.aspx --Joel's Lightweight Code Gen spells SUWEET for small scripting languages in games.
  • interesting example

System.Reflection.Emit

Contains classes that allow a compiler or tool to emit metadata and Microsoft intermediate language (MSIL) and optionally generate a PE file on disk. The primary clients of these classes are script engines and compilers.