Gregory's Serveryou joke, but this exercise did leave me wondering whether using a stack-based VM in Fidget could lead to faster evaluation or easier JIT compilation...
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 @avi @mjk @neauoire What is Fidget? If I did a JIT, UXN is probably what I would target. Alas, the only JIT code that I've ever been able to remotely follow is mupen64_plus's, and that's JITs MIPS to ARM/x86/a few others (register machine to register machine). So there would be a further learning curve to unstackify UXN to ARM/x86/etc.  @cr1901 @avi Fidget is https://docs.rs/fidget/ , a JIT for rendering implicit surfaces (among other things!) It's mostly unrelated to Uxn; the only similarity is that both are bytecode-based VMs. |
@mjk @neauoire there’s certainly lots of prior art there in forth and smalltalk with threaded code interpreters and JITs.