I have an existing bytecode file that I need to execute. The bytecode  
is produced by some other compiler. Does this change anything?

I'm not sure if a term-level interpreter or rewriter applies in this  
scenario.

As for CPS, what I meant is implementing each bytecode instruction as  
a function that takes a continuation (next instruction?).

	Thanks, Joel

On Aug 15, 2007, at 2:01 PM, Jon Harrop wrote:

> The performance of interpreters is heavily dependent upon what  
> exactly you're
> evaluating (both language and program properties). If you start  
> with a naive
> term-level interpreter or rewriter then you can get an order of  
> magnitude in
> performance by optimizing the interpreter without leaving OCaml or  
> moving to
> (real) bytecode compilation.

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