From 153f04b72ac68cce45374f724455683802eca74e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Skgland <bennet.blessmann+github@googlemail.com>
Date: Sat, 21 Mar 2026 14:20:11 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] adjust interrupt handling

we used to spend ~5.8% of the time on getting the next value of the 0..INSTRUCTIONS_PER_INTERRUPT_POLL iterator

increment on Wrapping<u8> now only takes ~0.58 of the time
---
 src/machine/dispatch.rs | 17 +++++++++++++----
 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/machine/dispatch.rs b/src/machine/dispatch.rs
index 33e9db1a..20ec38cb 100644
--- a/src/machine/dispatch.rs
+++ b/src/machine/dispatch.rs
@@ -77,8 +77,6 @@ macro_rules! push_cell {
     }};
 }
 
-static INSTRUCTIONS_PER_INTERRUPT_POLL: usize = 256;
-
 impl MachineState {
     #[inline(always)]
     fn compare(&mut self) -> CallResult {
@@ -1541,8 +1539,13 @@ impl Machine {
     }
 
     fn verify_attr_dispatch_loop(&mut self) -> Option<std::process::ExitCode> {
+        let mut interrupt_counter = std::num::Wrapping(0u8);
         'outer: loop {
-            for _ in 0..INSTRUCTIONS_PER_INTERRUPT_POLL {
+            loop {
+                interrupt_counter += 1;
+                if interrupt_counter.0 == 0 {
+                    break;
+                }
                 match self.code[self.machine_st.p] {
                     Instruction::BreakFromDispatchLoop => {
                         break 'outer;
@@ -1611,8 +1614,14 @@ impl Machine {
     }
 
     pub(super) fn dispatch_loop(&mut self) -> std::process::ExitCode {
+        let mut interrupt_counter = std::num::Wrapping(0u8);
         'outer: loop {
-            for _ in 0..INSTRUCTIONS_PER_INTERRUPT_POLL {
+            loop {
+                interrupt_counter += 1;
+                if interrupt_counter.0 == 0 {
+                    break;
+                }
+
                 match &self.code[self.machine_st.p] {
                     &Instruction::BreakFromDispatchLoop => {
                         break 'outer;
-- 
2.54.0