Fast minimum-footprint bytecode interpreter - Page 2 — Parallax Forums

Fast minimum-footprint bytecode interpreter

cgracey · 2013-05-08 11:24:52

After OPC, Potatohead mentioned a great idea to me: in-line assembly for Spin. Currently, to execute assembly language, you must write a whole PASM program, launch it with COGNEW, then communicate with it via memory. This is cumbersome and requires a whole extra cog to do any PASM, at all. If the Spin interpreter footprint…

Comments

msrobots Posts: 3,709

2013-05-10 23:55 edited 2013-05-10 23:55

Yes,

So the compiler also generates the spin-interpreter, just including USED byte-codes, thus saving space on the overall size of the binary.

brilliant.

Enjoy!

Mike

or Register to comment.