Plush's New Register-Based Interpreter Is Insanely Fast
I'll go into some detail on how the interpreter was rewritten to switch from a stack-based design like CPython, to a register-based design like Lua, and optimized to deliver some surprising, and I think pretty impressive results. One thing I'll say right away is that if you care about interpreter performance, you probably should not be writing stack-based bytecode interpreters in 2026.