On 05/10/2016 08:45 AM, Jacob Carlborg wrote: > > I was listening to a discussion Don and Daniel had about the current > implementation of CTFE. They talked about using a byte code interpreter. > Even implementing a really crappy byte code interpreter would be a huge > improvement.
No need for a byte-code interpreter, it mostly just adds overhead and complexity over an AST interpreter. If you want to go really fast you need some sort of JIT anyhow, but a proper interpreter will be orders of mangnitude faster than the current implementation. I might refer you to http://dconf.org/2013/talks/chevalier_boisvert.pdf page 59 ff.
