David M. Cooke wrote:

>  5. Currently, we use a big switch statement. There are ways (taken
>     from Forth) that are better: indirect and direct threading.
>     Unfortunately, it looks the easy way to do these uses GCC's
>     capability to take the address of local labels. I'll add that if I
>     can refactor the machine enough so that both variants can be
>     produced. Have a look at
>     http://www.complang.tuwien.ac.at/anton/vmgen/
>     which is the virtual machine generator used for gforth (but
>     applicable to other things). I may use this.

Hmmm. If LLVM weren't so huge and such a pain to install, I might recommend
looking at using it. It could make a fun experiment, though.

-- 
Robert Kern
robert.kern@[...].com

"I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma
 that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had
 an underlying truth."
  -- Umberto Eco



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