Comment by masfuerte
13 hours ago
Is it? It would be if it partially evaluated a MIPS emulator on a particular game. But it doesn't seem to work like that.
13 hours ago
Is it? It would be if it partially evaluated a MIPS emulator on a particular game. But it doesn't seem to work like that.
"Decoding the MIPS R5900 instructions in each function Translating those instructions to equivalent C++ code Generating a runtime that can execute the recompiled code The translated code is very literal, with each MIPS instruction mapping to a C++ operation." It sounds like a MIPS interpreter that gets statically unrolled.
Yes, it's like the result of unrolling a MIPS interpreter, but there never was an actual MIPS interpreter.
I thought the point of the Futamura projection was that there was actually partial evaluation happening, i.e. you take a real interpreter and specialize it in some automated fashion. That's what makes it interesting.
But I could well be wrong about the naming. It doesn't really matter what it's called if we're all clear about what's actually happening.