What opcode dispatch strategies are used in efficient interpreters?

Question

What techniques promote efficient opcode dispatch to make a fast interpreter? Are there some techniques that only work well on modern hardware and others that don\'t work we

Answer 1

Befor you start anything, check Lua.

It's small (150Kb), pure ANSI C, works on anything having C compiler. Very fast.

And most important - source code is clean and readable. Worth checking out.