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		jonjacky 7 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Writing a C compiler in 500 lines of Python (2023) In the CPython reference interpreter, that VM can be found at https://github.com/python/cpython/blob/main/Python/ceval.c It's 3619 lines. It's explained in this 515 line file: https://github.com/python/cpython/blob/main/InternalDocs/ For comparison, there is a pure Python bytecode interpreter, its VM is here: https://github.com/nedbat/byterun/blob/master/byterun/pyvm2.... It's 1043 lines.

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