Adding Optimization to the Decompilable Code Editor

The authors of this paper recently researched the possibility of developing programming language implementation, that is neither compiler, nor interpreter. The concept is based on keeping the complete program in native machine code, but the specialized editor can 'on the fly' decompile the machine code and display it as high level language. The displayed code can be edited and saved again as pure machine code. This paper reviews the possibility of optimizing generated code, while still retaining the possibility of decompilation. We found many important code sequences which can be replaced with shorter ones while keeping the code in decompilable executable format.