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Abstract: "Test coverage is often measured by the number of source lines of code that is executed
by tests. However, compilers can apply transformations to the code to optimize the performance or size of a program. These transformations can remove parts of the original
code, but they can also add ...
In-depth article about using [sweet.js](https://github.com/mozilla/sweet.js), a macro library for Javascript.
This is the CL that removed the C compiler and assembler for Go.
Would it be useful to folks to have a compilers tag? I'm certainly interested in reading articles about compilers but their harder to find when scattered across different languages or in the catch-all compsci tag.
Here's the [original suggestion for this tag](https://lobste.rs/s/hpsyea/why_is_it_...
http://cr.yp.to/talks/2015.04.16/slides-djb-20150416-a4.pdf
http://cr.yp.to/talks/2015.04.16/slides-djb-20150416-4x3.pdf
http://cr.yp.to/talks/2015.04.16/audio.ogg