Re: Fastening the run-time interpretation of mathematical expressions

One way of having very fast interpretation would be to generate
C code for the function, and compile it on the fly with TCC (which
performs very few optimization but I expect it to be faster than
an interpreter in such a case) and call it on the fly as well.


http://fabrice.bellard.free.fr/tcc/


The web site contains extensive examples where one has a C function
in a string, compiles it, and calls it repetitively. It might be
overkill for you app, but it's fun, for sure :-)


PAolo wrote:
> I am writing a piece of software that accept in input the definition
> of a mathematical function and a list of points in which evaluate the
> function and puts the result in output. The main feature of the progam
> is that once the function definition is read, the program evaluates
> the function very fast [Well this isn't done already...]. I was
> thinking to build a pair of stacks, one containig the operands
> (floats) and the other containig the operators (function pointers).

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