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How to Make a Fast Dynamic Language Interpreter

Hacker News Top · 2026-04-21 Cached

A detailed technical post on optimizing an AST-walking interpreter for Zef, a dynamically-typed language, achieving 16x speedup through value representation, inline caching, object model improvements, and other optimization techniques to reach performance levels competitive with Lua, QuickJS, and CPython.

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