Re: Portable Fast Direct Threaded Code

metzger@watson.ibm.com (Perry E. Metzger) writes:
>[I'd like a reference on threaded code interpreters.]


3 citations follow:


%A James R. Bell
%T Threaded Code
%J Communications of the ACM (CACM)
%V 16
%N 2
%D June 1973
%P 370-372
%X Describes the basic idea of threaded code.
Compares to hard code (subroutine calls) and interpreters.


%A Richard H. Eckhouse Jr.
%A L. Robert Morris
%T Minicomputer Systems Organization, Programming, and Applications
(PDP-11). 2nd Ed.
%I Prentice-Hall, Inc.
%P 290-298
%X Describes threaded code and ``knotted code''. I (pardo) think that
this is a very clear introduction to threaded code.


%A Peter M. Kogge
%T An Architectural Trail to Threaded Code Systems
%J IEEE Computer
%P 22-33
%D March 1982
%W rrh (original)
%W Pardo (copy)
%X Describes how to build a threaded code interpeter/compiler from
scratch.
  * Direct threaded/indirect threaded.
  * Less than 2:1 performance hit of threading compared to full
compilation.
  * Note about bad compilers contributing to relative OK-ness of
threaded code.
  * Ease of rewriting stuff.
  * Ease of tuning.


My favorite of the three is Eckhouse & Morris; however I don't know
where to get it. The pages that I have are photocopies graciously
sent to me by a friend. As the title implies, this book is several
years old and undoubtedly out-of-print.


;-D on ( Following this thread of the discussion... ) Pardo
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