On Mon, Feb 21, 2005 at 09:08:01AM -0300, Gerhard Fiedler wrote:
> > Forget p-code. p-code is stack based and uses a dynamic runtime stack. 
> 
> It's as Wouter said: I didn't really think of "real" p code. I don't know
> "real" p code from the inside. I took John Payson's original idea and
> purported it here, and I used his original use of p code as anything where
> code is stored in some compressed form, in tokens. Maybe "token code" would
> be better...

bytecode is another term that is typically used too.

BAJ
> 

> It also occurred to me, as you said, that the static call stack of PIC
> compilers is a real problem for all this. It is a problem for the
> interpreter, and it is a problem for calling back and forth between
> interpreted and compiled code.

It's a problem that is solved with a software stack. That's what the NPCI
bytecode interpreter implements.

BAJ
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