Comment by djwatson24

Marc feeley wrote “using closures for code generation” way back in 1987. Everything old is new again!

It’s quite nice and only a small bit more code than an ast interpreter - but not as fast as a luajit- style tail calling bytecode vm, nor a baseline jit like copy and patch. It works wonders in languages that support closures though.

https://www-labs.iro.umontreal.ca/~feeley/papers/FeeleyLapal...