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Comment by soulbadguy

5 years ago

I find the parallel between parsing and interpretation fascinating, and something i have never though about before. Is a general knowledge, any insight wether or not this parallel runs deeper than just implementation similarities ?

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pornel  5 years ago

Decompression is another task equivalent to interpreting bytecode, and this similarity is well-known.

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