I highly recommend folks to view this talk by the venerable Cliff Click called "Bits of Advice For the VM Writer" [1] Of particular interest are Continuation S

I highly recommend folks to view this talk by the venerable Cliff Click called "Bits of Advice For the VM Writer" [1] Of particular interest are Continuation Style Passing Interpreters [2] and how much of a speedup you can get by going to raw assembly. The talk has lessons Cliff learned from his years on the JVM but those can be adapted easily to other runtimes. [1] https://youtu.be/Hqw57GJSrac?t=341 https://youtu.be/Hqw57GJSrac?t=341 [2] https://kseo.github.io/posts/2017-01-09-continuation-passing-style-interpreter.html https://kseo.github.io/posts/2017-01-09-continuation-passing...