What do you mean by "gets directly interpreted"? Interpreting the AST? Writing a bytecode interpreter is pretty easy and can run much faster than a tree interpr

What do you mean by "gets directly interpreted"? Interpreting the AST? Writing a bytecode interpreter is pretty easy and can run much faster than a tree interpreter, especially when you use gcc extensions (taking addresses from labels and filling a jump table with it, which eliminates the long "if ... else if ... else if ..." like code a switch statement creates).