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by genxy 62 days ago
They do now https://github.com/bytecodealliance/weval
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ghusbands 62 days ago
That's a partial evaluator, not an interpreter, and it converts an interpreter into compiler, which are different things.
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genxy 62 days ago
> Interpreters don't translate bytecode to native instructions.

> That's a partial evaluator, not an interpreter, and it converts an interpreter into compiler, which are different things.

https://old.reddit.com/r/Compilers/comments/1sm90x5/retrofit...

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ghusbands 62 days ago
Yes, that's another great example of the same kind of thing - creating a JIT from an interpreter. It remains true that interpreters do not directly generate machine code.
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genxy 61 days ago
The author of weval is the top comment.

Reading the comments and understanding that transitively, weval turns interpreters into compilers, allowing interpreters to generate machine code.

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direwolf20 61 days ago
If you turn milk into cheese it isn't milk any more, and it doesn't prove that milk is a yellow solid.
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genxy 58 days ago
We lost the plot here.

What are your goals, to let everyone know that interpreters, definitionally don't generate code? This isn't debate club.

I dropped a cool link that shows we have a machine that turns interpreters into compilers. I am talking about the machine. You are talking about the definition. We aren't talking about the same thing.

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