Which file is the interpreter?

[Helmut Eller]

* James Ladd [2009-09-23 23:52+0200] writes:

> Im looking for the loop that takes the next instruction and dispatches
> it. Maybe I just dont understand the JVM - yet. Is there such a loop ?

As described in Gary Benson blog, there are two interpreters: the c++
interpreter and the template based interpreter.

The loop that you are searching is probably the run method in
bytecodeInterpreter.cpp.  But as far as I understand the c++ interpreter
is normally not used (maybe for debugging or new platforms).

The template interpreter has no dispatch loop: templates are chained
together which removes dispatch overhead almost entirely.

Helmut