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How do language implementations implement native-extension class instantiation?
I'm writing a language interpreter in C. I'm currently implementing a system that allows writing extension modules in C for the interpreter. These modules are loaded into a code file like a normal ...
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How can one bake a GUI framework inside an interpreter without freezing the interpreter?
I am writing a bytecode interpreter in C for a simple programming language. I want to add GUI capabilities to the language. As a first step, I decided to bake into the interpreter a wrapper for the ...
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What are the existing solutions for creating object graphs in an interpreter?
Please let me know if this isn't the right SE site (or otherwise) for this kind of question, it's the best match I could find. I'm working on a humble interpreter written in C for a simple language I'...
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Is it really always easier to write an interpreter than a compiler?
I've read that generally it's easier to write an interpreter than a compiler. If that's true, what's the reason? Writing an interpreter seems to me equivalent in the level of difficulty as writing a ...
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Transpiling <XY> language into a custom one
Our company has a legacy assembly-like language with some terrible design choices. I'm pretty sure the language is not going to change, since way too many legacy things might change their behavior ...
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Can we make general statements about the performance of interpreted code vs compiled code?
I'm comparing two technologies in order to reach a recommendation for which one should be used by a company. Technology A's code is interpreted while technology B's code is compiled to machine code. ...
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How Does An Interpreter Work? [closed]
I've been searching for tons of websites for how an interpreter works, but I found none of these explain how Interpreter works internally. But I found in many places how compiler works with all the ...
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Writing a parser on top of an XML-based AST: am i doing it right?
I have a sort of AST defined in XML that i'm trying to parse and evaluate. The XML tree contains the tokens and all the information i need. However, i'm finding it difficult to do it "properly". Here'...
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Is prototypal inheritance inherently slower?
I see Javascript 6 will add traditional class based inheritance, and one argument I hear is that classes are inherently much faster than prototypes because they can be optimized away by the compiler ...
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Static typing vs. dynamic typing [closed]
I'm developing my own programming language in my spare time as a hobby. It's an interpreted language. Currently the syntax for variables is this: %<variable> = <value> Here are some ...
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Are there programming languages that their programs don't run on a VM or natively, but rather on an interpreter? [closed]
In this question I presented an idea I have for a simple programming language. The way programs written in this language will be run, is inside an interpreter written in Java, which will interpret the ...
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Regarding interpreters
I understand that an interpreter could do one of the following things (and probably more): Execute programming-language source code directly. First translate the source code to some intermediate code (...
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Interpreter or virtual machine that does not execute bytecode
The developers of the Dart language tell that there is a virtual machine that executes statements written in Dart language. What is the difference between an interpreter and a virtual machine that ...
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From an execution perspective is an interpreter the same as the JVM / or the .net Framework
I've recently started two introductory level courses - one using Python, the other Java. I've read the answers to this Question but still have difficulty understanding how each ends up with machine ...
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Whats the difference between an interpreted language and one compiled to a VM? [duplicate]
It occurs to me that there's not a heck of a lot of difference between $>python module.py And: $>javac module.java $>java module.class The former compiles to an intermediate language (...
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