Monitoring Control Table Execution
The interpreter program can optionally save the program counter (and other relevant details depending upon instruction type) at each stage to record a full or partial trace of the actual program flow for debugging purposes, hot spot detection, code coverage analysis and performance analysis (see examples CT3 & CT4 above).
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