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nominolo's Blog
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nominolo's Blog is a personal blog at nominolo.blogspot.com about programming. Since 2012, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times, most often “Implementing Fast Interpreters ”. The last post was in 2012, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog's posts on ARM64 and on fast interpreter implementation, including threaded code. One commenter cites its interpreter post while discussing LuaJIT and small teams.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- Implementing Fast Interpreters 2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2012-07-22
What Hacker News says?
I hope by "Perform an atomic store of the new isa value." he means "Perform an atomic compare-and-set of the new isa value." A64 doesn't eliminate conditional execution completely. It just pares it down to the basics: branch (obviously), add/sub, select, compare (for flattening conditionals like `a && b && c`). Another thing removed from A32 was the optional shift on operand 2-- which was taking up 7/32 bits for mos…
Comment linking /2012/07/arms-new-64-bit-instruction-set.html
on “ARM64 and You”Submitted Implementing Fast Interpreters as a story · 161 points
HN discussionhttp://nominolo.blogspot.com/2012/07/implementing-fast-inter... I've been interested in this lately. I keep getting the feeling that it, like lots of programming knowledge, remains locked up in the minds of a limited set of greybeards. Not entirely the same thing, but Mike Pall wrote luajit2 mostly by himself. The interpreter alone is faster than the original luajit. When I see how much small teams like the lua team…
Comment linking /2012/07/implementing-fast-interpreters.html
on “Threaded Code (1999)”Submitted Implementing Fast Interpreters: Discussion & Further Reading as a story · 6 points
HN discussion