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0 pointsgenxy2mo ago0 comments

They do now https://github.com/bytecodealliance/weval

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ghusbands2mo ago· 2 in thread

That's a partial evaluator, not an interpreter, and it converts an interpreter into compiler, which are different things.

genxyOP2mo ago

> Interpreters don't translate bytecode to native instructions.

> That's a partial evaluator, not an interpreter, and it converts an interpreter into compiler, which are different things.

https://old.reddit.com/r/Compilers/comments/1sm90x5/retrofit...

ghusbands2mo ago

Yes, that's another great example of the same kind of thing - creating a JIT from an interpreter. It remains true that interpreters do not directly generate machine code.

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