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Register-based VM #61

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darrylabbate opened this issue Dec 24, 2022 · 0 comments
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Register-based VM #61

darrylabbate opened this issue Dec 24, 2022 · 0 comments
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Todo: add benchmarking data

Riff's stack-based VM is pretty fast, but gets outclassed by register-based VMs in benchmarks where a lot of values need to be pushed on and popped from the stack (e.g. N-body).

This will be a fairly significant undertaking if I ever get the time to implement this.
@darrylabbate darrylabbate added implementation General implementation of the interpreter runtime Virtual machine/runtime compiler Compiler/parser codegen labels Dec 24, 2022
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