Re: info on byte-coded and other fast interpreters

Smalltalk bytecode interpreters:


Berkely Smalltalk:
%A David M. Ungar
%A David A. Patterson
%T Berkeley Smalltalk: Who Knows Where the Time Goes?
%B Smalltalk-80: Bits of History, Words of Advice
%E Glenn Krasner
%I Addison-Wesley
%C Reading, MA
%D 1983
%P 189-206
%K Ungar83


Tektronix Smalltalk:
%A Patric J. Caudill
%A Allan Wirfs-Brock
%T A Third Generation Smalltalk-80 Implementation
%J Proceedings of OOPSLA'86
%D November 1986
%I SIGPLAN
%V 21
%N 11
%K Caudill86


BrouHaHa Smalltalk
Eliot Miranda
"BrouHaHa - A Portable Smalltalk Interpreter"
pp 354-365,
Proceedings of OOPSLA '87, vol. 22, no. 12, ACM SIGPLAN Notices, Dec 87.




How to improve on Smalltalk bytecode interpreters:
%A L. Peter Deutsch
%A Allan M. Schiffmann
%T Efficient Implementation of the Smalltalk-80 System
%J 11th Annual Symposium on Principles of Programming Languages
%D January 1984
%P 297-302
%K Deutsch84


(also check out my articles on dynamic translation to threaded-code
on comp.arch about a year to six months ago. summary, dynamic translation
of bytecodes to threaded-code can be fast, compact and portable)
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Dept of Computer Science Tel: 071 975 5229 (+44 71 975 5229)
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