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Marc feeley wrote “using closures for code generation” way back in 1987. Everything old is new again! It’s quite nice and only a small bit more code than an as
by djwatson24 1y ago
Marc feeley wrote “using closures for code generation” way back in 1987. Everything old is new again!
It’s quite nice and only a small bit more code than an ast interpreter - but not as fast as a luajit- style tail calling bytecode vm, nor a baseline jit like copy and patch. It works wonders in languages that support closures though.
https://www-labs.iro.umontreal.ca/~feeley/papers/FeeleyLapalmeCL87.pdf https://www-labs.iro.umontreal.ca/~feeley/papers/FeeleyLapal...