shadowofneptune/threaded-code-benchmark

A demonstration of ways to implement 'threaded code,' a technique used in Forth and in virtual machines like the JVM.

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…My own benchmarks from last year (note that these toy VMs may not be applicable to larger ones): https://github.com/shadowofneptune/threaded-code-benchmark It does take work to make a faster VM, it feels unreasonable to expect a compiler…
comment by shadowofneptune · 2022-08-08 · in I 10x'd a TI-84 emulator's speed by replacing a switch-case
…function will always be the slowest due to the work the processor has to do for each instruction. https://github.com/shadowofneptune/threaded-code-benchmark Basically, you're better off with a massive switch statement, even if it's ugly in…
comment by shadowofneptune · 2022-01-16 · in Writing a minimal Lua implementation with a virtual machine from scratch in Rust
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story by shadowofneptune · 2022-01-15 · 4 comments