Exploring an alternative bytecode set
Ian Piumarta
Ian.Piumarta at inria.fr
Wed Nov 10 16:44:41 UTC 1999
> by encoding groups of symbols instead of the symbols themselves you
> can achieve a much better compression rate. This could translate
> into interpreting groups of bytecodes at a time instead of the
> bytecodes directly, but then only the interpreter needs to change,
> not necessarily the bytecode set.
Exactly. <http://www-sor.inria.fr/publi/ODCSI_pldi98.html> explains
how to do it.
Ian
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