Aug 14, 2023 · This work assesses the trade-offs between AST and bytecode interpreters to verify common assumptions and whether they hold in the context of meta-compilation systems.

After some digging, I stumbled upon a bytecode assembler library (Jasmin and Krakatoa) and got to work on a proof of concept. So far, I've managed to parse binary expressions, focusing on addition …

Apr 16, 2023 · Is it possible to optimize this bytecode interpreter more? I've been researching bytecode interpreter optimizations (without JITing) and to test them out made a few simple C implementations: …

Mar 14, 2020 · You need to think of bytecode as an ISA (Instruction Set Architecture); this may help you understand the design tradeoffs that bytecode design has to make. First and foremost, yes you want …

In the tutorial I am following, Crafting Interpreters, the bytecode is executed immediately after it is built, so you can just write a pointer to any objects that are constants.

May 3, 2024 · Emit the bytecode for the arguments and the add instruction and return from the add node. Again, this is a toy example, so you'd want something more sophisticated in practice, but the …

Apr 11, 2023 · You're looking for "abstract machines"; others have listed a number of them here, there's also the Categorical Abstract Machine (Ralf Hinze's review discusses compiling an ML-like language …

So, when the interpreter fetches a bytecode instruction, it checks if a pre-compiled (already decoded) bytecode instruction by JIT and AOT exists, and executes it directly.

Is there a bytecode I can target that has an interpreter or non llvm backend? I'm writing a toy language with LLVM. It takes a while to compile even a hello world in debug mode. I don't particularly feel like …

Jan 4, 2019 · Bytecode is usually executed by a virtual CPU (vCPU). vCPUs have two popular architectures: stack-based and register-based. Stack-based vCPUs are easier to write but register …