Specialized Interpreter

Arguments



3

Program

L0: PUSH -1

ADD
NEQ L0
RETURN

Specialized Version

p0: valueStack[1] = -1;

p1: valueStack[0] =

valueStack[1] +

valueStack[0];

p2: if (valueStack[0] != 0)

goto p0;

p3: return valueStack[0];

• Fetch, decode overhead eliminated in specialized version.

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