Method of executing an interpreter program

摘要

A threaded interpreter (916) is suitable for executing a program comprising a series of program instructions stored in a memory (904). For the execution of a program instruction the threaded interpreter includes: a preparatory unit (918) for executing a plurality of preparatory steps making the program instruction available in the threaded interpreter, and an execution unit (920) with one or more machine instructions emulating the program instruction. According to the invention, the threaded interpreter is designed such that during the execution on an instruction-level parallel processor of the series of program instructions machine instructions implementing a first one of the preparatory steps are executed in parallel with machine instructions implementing a second one of the preparatory steps for respective ones of the series of program instructions.