[m-dev.] for review: bytecode interpreter

[Fergus Henderson]

On 08-Dec-2000, Ralph Becket <rbeck at microsoft.com> wrote:
> Just out of interest, why is the bytecode interpreter written in C
> rather than Mercury itself?

Good question.

There's several possible reasons:
	- efficiency?
	- might make it easier to interoperate with (Mercury code that
	  has been compiled to) native code?
	- might make it easier to interoperate with the debugger?

I'm not sure if any of them are *good* reasons.

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