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throwaway1492today at 12:23 AM1 replyview on HN

Do you always make things about yourself? Have you written a parser or interpreter? You should, it’s an interesting exercise. The idea is to add meta tracing to the interpreter (the c code) that allows hot paths to be compiled to machine code and be then executed instead of being interpreted.


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sgbealtoday at 5:52 AM

> Do you always make things about yourself?

That's an abrasive question but i dare say that we all do. It's our only constant point of reference.

> Have you written a parser or interpreter?

i have written many parsers, several parser generators, and a handful of programming languages. This article, however, covers a whole other level, way over my head (or well beyond any of my ambitions, in any case).

Pics or it didn't happen: fossil.wanderinghorse.net/r/cwal