Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by taeric 343 days ago
Right, that is basically what I was asking. Essentially, I expected the machine code to be a bit of an unrolling of the interpreter over the opcodes that a piece of code is executing.

That my intuition is wrong here doesn't shock me, I should add. It was still a surprise and it will get me to update my idea on what the interpreter is doing.