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From: dot@dotat.at (Tony Finch)
Subject: [TUHS] Comments on "C"
Date: Thu, 8 Sep 2016 15:22:54 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.11.1609081518370.14525@grey.csi.cam.ac.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160908133038.CF61818C0CB@mercury.lcs.mit.edu>

Noel Chiappa <jnc at mercury.lcs.mit.edu> wrote:
>
>     > 1.  Computed goto
>
> Can't you make a switch statement do what you need there?

Interesting comments on how effectively CPUs and compilers handle inner
loops of interpreters:

http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.lua.general/75426

Lots more research on interpreter efficiency:

http://www.complang.tuwien.ac.at/projects/interpreters.html

Tony.
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  reply	other threads:[~2016-09-08 14:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-09-08 13:30 Noel Chiappa
2016-09-08 14:22 ` Tony Finch [this message]
2016-09-08 19:20   ` Ron Natalie
2016-09-08 22:06     ` Dave Horsfall
2016-09-09  3:02       ` Ronald Natalie
2016-09-09  6:06         ` Diomidis Spinellis
2016-09-09 21:15 ` Mary Ann Horton
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2016-09-09  2:43 Doug McIlroy
2016-09-08 12:35 Doug McIlroy
2016-09-09 17:07 ` scj
2016-09-01  9:17 Norman Wilson
2016-09-01 15:11 ` Clem Cole
2016-09-01 21:47 ` Tim Bradshaw
2016-09-02  0:11   ` Mary Ann Horton
2016-09-02  7:10     ` Steve Simon
2016-09-02 10:02       ` Steve Nickolas
2016-09-02 14:13       ` Random832
2016-09-02 21:23 ` Dave Horsfall
2016-09-04 17:03   ` scj
2016-09-05 13:07     ` Ron Natalie
2016-09-04 22:24   ` Nemo
2016-08-28 18:21 Dave Horsfall
2016-08-29  0:37 ` Marc Rochkind
2016-08-29  0:42   ` Larry McVoy
2016-08-29  1:54     ` Steve Nickolas
2016-09-08  1:19     ` Blake McBride
2016-08-29  3:16   ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2016-08-31 10:02     ` Tim Bradshaw
2016-08-31 12:59       ` John Cowan
2016-08-31 13:32         ` Ron Natalie
2016-08-31 14:37           ` John Cowan
2016-08-31 13:57   ` Brantley Coile

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