Two little interpreters (article + code) (dubroy.com)
from armchair_progamer@programming.dev to programming_languages@programming.dev on 27 Mar 2024 15:47
https://programming.dev/post/12001834

The author wrote a tiny AST and bytecode interpreter to test which is faster (related to the paper “AST vs. Bytecode: Interpreters in the Age of Meta-Compilation”).

Tl;dr; like in the paper, the AST interpreter is faster.

Keep in mind the “meta-compilation”: the AST or bytecode interpreter itself runs in a JIT interpreter, in the author’s tests V8 or JSC.

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