Sharpero
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This is an implementation of an Interpreter/Compiler for the [Prospero](https://www.mattkeeter.com/projects/prospero/) challenge, implementing some basic optimizations including removing constants from the instruction tape, vectorization, parallelization but also optionally compiling the loop of the evaluator to [CIL](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Intermediate_Language) prior to invocation.

It doesn't perform any sophisticated interval-arithmetic based optimizations (... yet), it's essentially a brute-force approach.

This program is also an interactive visualizer of the rendering process, allowing you to see exactly how it's writing the image data out, and toggle vectorization, parallel execution, compilation on/off and observe the effects on runtime.

On my own machine (CPU: Ryzen 7 4800HS), the results tabulate roughly as follows.

# (Crude) Benchmark Results
| Compilation | Parallelism | Vectorization | Evaluation Time | Compilation Time |
|-------------|-------------|---------------|-----------------|------------------|
| enabled     | enabled     | enabled       | 0.2s            | 0.2s             |
| enabled     | enabled     | disabled      | 1.3s            | 0.2s             |
| enabled     | disabled    | enabled       | 1.7s            | 0.2s             |
| enabled     | disabled    | disabled      | 10s             | 0.2s             |
| disabled    | enabled     | enabled       | 0.7s            | N/A              |
| disabled    | enabled     | disabled      | 5.0s            | N/A              |
| disabled    | disabled    | disabled      | 48s             | N/A              |

# License
MIT/X11