On 4/7/2015 5:59 PM, deadalnix wrote:
Not really when you think about it. CPU instruction is a bytecode like another, with provided hardware interpreter for it.
Oh, I have thought about it. There's at least a couple orders of magnitude difference in complexity, even for the dumbest code generator.
It is becoming common to have VM not going through the interpreter step (ie software interpreter) to go directly to low quality but fast codegen. V8 is doing this for instance.
When you've got unlimited resources, you can do that.
