Re: Interpreters optimized for RISC machines?

iank@dircon.co.uk (Ian Kemmish)
Thu, 24 Feb 1994 19:21:15 GMT

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Interpreters optimized for RISC machines? mjg@ktbush.ogo.dec.com (1994-02-22)
Re: Interpreters optimized for RISC machines? iank@dircon.co.uk (1994-02-24)
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From: iank@dircon.co.uk (Ian Kemmish)
Keywords: architecture, interpreter
Organization: The Direct Connection
References: 94-02-173
Date: Thu, 24 Feb 1994 19:21:15 GMT

mjg@ktbush.ogo.dec.com writes:
> It would seem to me that stack-based interpreters would perform
>extremely badly on modern RISC processors with many registers and
>long latencies to access cache, let alone physical memory.
>
> Has there been work done on interpretive engines which work in
>this kind of environment particularly well? Especially ones which are
>written in higher-level-languages; particularly "C". References
>appreciated!


Most of the commercial PostScript interpreters work better on
RISc machines than they do on register-poor machines. Of course,
you may regard PostScript as a special case due to the excessive
side-effects that executing individual operators can have....


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