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Aug 27, 2023 at 03:53
Implementing interactive languages, and the tradeoffs of interpreters, JIT compilers, and AOT compilers:
Implementing interactive languages

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TIL Tcl has a notion of 'safe interpreters', a mode where you can run untrusted code in a sandbox: https://www.tcl.tk/man/tcl8.4/TclCmd/safe.htm Not many programming languages have this, but it's way safer to include in the implementation than try to build as a userland library.
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On storing ASTs in flat arrays for performance, and the relationship with bytecode interpreters:
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Interpreters versus compilers as a spectrum, and a fun worked example of optimising Brainfuck:
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