2017/08/15

01:33

One thing I will need to consider are Strings, the best way to store them in a memory optimized form. I think a general thing is that strings will never use more than a given count of characters. My plan is to use byte arrays and instead have it where 0-127 are normal ASCII values which are plain, but then have 128-255 be a mapped set of characters. This would reduce the speed a bit but it would potentially reduce characters used. Reading characters would require accessing the map. Probably in most cases, any strings that appear most of them will be pure ASCII, never triggering a map ever. The map itself would need to be backed by a char array if it exists, since it would handle characters outside of the ASCII range in most cases. I will say that most methods within String must use charAt.

11:47

Sometimes I wonder what James Gosling would think of SquirrelJME.

13:02

MMIX has forward and backwards branching, my machine code output will have to handle these cases despite most architectures having a signed branch instruction.

14:52

Ok, so what I need is a good representation of registers. This is where I have ran into issues many times because registers are complex things.