Re: Suggestions on implementing an efficient instruction set simulator in LuaJIT2

[Tony Finch <dot@...>]

On Tue, 15 Feb 2011, Josh Haberman wrote:
>
> Could you possibly summarize the few biggest strategies that you
> use to beat C compilers when it comes to interpreter loops?

There's quite a lot of literature on the topic out there. Anton Ertl and
Davig Gregg in particular have done significant work recently to compare
implementation strategies for interpreters on modern CPUs.

http://www.complang.tuwien.ac.at/projects/interpreters.html

Tony.
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