node-spacey
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a tiny yet performant whitespace vmm/interpreter
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spacey
a tiny, wasm-ready whitespace interpreter/virtual machine in rust
project roadmap
- [x] whitespace parser
- [x] whitespace virtual machine
- [x] usable exposed crate API
- [x] spacey executable
- [x]
wasm-bindgen
bindings for web assembly support - [ ] LLVM backend to compile to standalone executable
- [ ] termion/ncurses frontend with debugging capabilities
- [ ] make IO faster, get rid of
.clone()
's inInterpreter::next_instruction()
building and running
make sure you have rust and the rust package manager cargo
installed on your system. if not, the easiest way to do so is to install rust via rustup.rs.
then, clone the repository and build natively as follows:
git clone https://github.com/D3PSI/spacey.git
cd spacey
cargo build --release
to build for wasm, simply install wasm-pack and execute:
wasm-pack build
to run the provided executable run:
cargo run --release -q -- -h
to show the help screen.
execute whitespace-files like:
cargo run --release -q -- -f ws/hello_world.ws
*data extrapolated from single-instruction benchmark (cargo bench
), which executes a single PushStack
followed by an Exit
instruction. benchmark run on a single Intel i7-7700K CPU core clocked at 5.1 GHz. this measurement is statistically significant because it was made with the criterion.rs
statistical benchmarking suite. for comparison, the reference interpreter in Haskell manages 94.5 million instructions per second, according to this. according to the same project, a JIT implementation beats spacey by about 200 million instructions per second, i.e., is a respectable (but only, considering JIT) around 25% faster than spacey. with some work I am confident I could match those numbers