vmgen - a tool for writing fast and efficient interpreters
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Description
Vmgen is a tool for writing efficient interpreters. It takes a simple virtual machine description and
generates efficient C code for dealing with the virtual machine code in various ways (in particular,
executing it). The run-time efficiency of the resulting interpreters is usually within a factor of 10 of
machine code produced by an optimizing compiler.
The main documentation for vmgen is in info format. Please use info vmgen for the complete documentation
on vmgen.
Name
vmgen - a tool for writing fast and efficient interpreters
See Also
The Vmgen manual in info format
https://www.complang.tuwien.ac.at/projects/forth.html.
Synopsis
vmgen INPUTFILE
