Building the fastest Lua interpreter.. automatically!

This is Part 1 of a series of posts. Part 2 is available here: Building a baseline JIT for Lua automatically It is well-known that writing a good VM for a dynamic language is never an easy job. High-performance interpreters, such as the JavaScript interpreter in Safari, or the Lua interpreter in LuaJIT, are often hand-coded in assembly. If you want a JIT compiler for better performance, well, you’

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VMのセマンティクスを定義するだけで十分に最適化されたインタープリターを生成する。ゆくゆくは今どきのJS処理系がやっているような、強力な最適化を行うJITコンパイラー等まで生成するつもりらしい。すごいなぁ