samps · HackerTrans

26 dagen geledendiscuss

Thanks, Ben. I admit I mostly think tracing is just a mind-expanding concept to learn about, even if history has proven it’s not very practical as an organizing principle. But as you say, I’d love to offer more context on “what actually seems to work” industrially.

samps

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I had an identical experience with the REALbasic Cafe as a kid, down to eventually selling a couple of shareware projects. I wonder if we were there at the same time.

samps

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I think it would be more like RPN if it used a stack, and operands were specified as relative offsets (i.e., stack offsets). In the version I wrote, operands are still represented as absolute offsets in the expression table.

samps

2 jaar geledendiscuss

FWIW I did acknowledge this in the article:

> A sufficiently smart memory allocator might achieve the same thing, especially if you allocate the whole AST up front and never add to it

> Again, a really fast malloc might be hard to compete with—but you basically can’t beat bump allocation on sheer simplicity.

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