Bytecode compilers and interpreters (Hacker News)

Created: 2020-08-24T05:31:39.256549

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• Stack machines are easy to build
• Register machines are faster since they do not waste time shuffling data
• A stack machine can be seen as a register machine with only two registers
• AST machines lose cache locality, bytecode is a flat stream.
• Optimized ASTs exist which are designed to be run.

https://interpreterbook.com/

http://craftinginterpreters.com/

https://compilerbook.com/

http://www.usenix.org/events/vee05/full_papers/p153-yunhe.pdf

TODO seem like interesting reading; re-link these to cards about the papers once read