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Re:Branch Prediction and the Performance of Interpreters – D... by mafribe on Monday August 10, 2015 @03:46AM (#10033208) 

    given that one uses specifically a bytecode interpreter and not a JIT is generally the sign that the interpreter is to be used on multiple platforms.
Well, you could JIT the bytecode. Or you could use a meta-tracer (see e.g. [1]). Both (kind-of / sort-of) circumvent the platform dependency problem.

[1] http://tratt.net/laurie/research/pubs/html/bolz_tratt__the_i...

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