Andrew Healey • 1/19/2023

Profiling and Optimizing an Interpreter

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The article details the process of profiling and optimizing a tree-walk interpreter for the 'nodots' programming language. The author sets goals for performance improvement, discusses architectural limitations, and emphasizes profiling before optimizing. A benchmark using a recursive Fibonacci function is used to measure performance gains, with comparisons to JavaScript execution times. The content covers technical profiling techniques and interpreter optimization strategies.

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