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Re:Which Interpreters Are Faster, AST or Bytecode? by mikewarot on Friday October 20, 2023 @08:33AM (#37955212)
So...FORTH?
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Re:Which Interpreters Are Faster, AST or Bytecode? by mschaef on Friday October 20, 2023 @09:42AM (#37955855)
This is not unheard of. IIRC, Microsoft did something similar with QuickBASIC 4. The surface language was QuickBASIC, but the underlying implementation was some threaded representation.
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Re:Which Interpreters Are Faster, AST or Bytecode? by z500 on Friday October 20, 2023 @12:08PM (#37958015)
That's really interesting. I found a StackExchange answer on this

https://retrocomputing.stackexchange.com/a/24427

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