I think recent Christopher suggestions about tail call elimination is worth
to consider, as it would allow to cut invocation cost of script functions
quite nicely in many cases. Plus I am thinking of not creating Object[] array
to pass arguments to callee if it is another interpreted function as it can
directly access the caller stack. But first I decided to make some
preparation work to simplify an implementation of these features later. The
attached patch includes:
1. Moving all code to setup scope from
InterpretedFunction.call/InterpretedFunction.call to Interpreter.interpret so
the call method simply calls Interpreter.interpret. It would make tail call
elimination code much simple. I also hope this simplifies changes Christopher
needs for the continuations support (but I have strong reservation about
possibility to implement it corectly).
2. Moving all declaration of temporary variables used only during processing
of the single ICODE to the case blocks.
3. Interpreter loop termination only in RETURN icodes, not when pc exceeds
icode size, so there is no need to check for this condition on each icode.
(Scripts are handled via the special END_ICODE token).
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