VM-beginners March 2011

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[OT] Blog sequence "Journey through the VM"
by Mariano Martinez Peck 02 Apr '11

02 Apr '11

Hi folks. I will start a sequence of VM related posts called “Journey through the VM”, similar to what Igor did in Deep Smalltalk School<http://www.inria.fr/centre-de-recherche-inria/lille-nord-europe/agenda/smal…>. My main focus is that a regular Smalltalker, without any knowledge in VM stuff can understand the basis of it (ObjectMemory, Interpreter, etc). In addition, I expect the reader can download, change, compile, run, and debug (and why not fixing?) the VM. Later on in the journey, I would also like to talk about what the compiler does, what bytecodes are, how to read them, how they are mapped to the VM, etc. I will also show some hooks or tricks that the VM provides and that are not always known. Moreover, I will explain what a primitive is, how they are executed by the VM, how you can write your own primitives, etc. FFI and writing your own plugin are also in my plans. It is important to notice that all these posts are thought for VM newbies. I would appreciate if there can be some VM hackers paying attention that I don't say stupid things. http://marianopeck.wordpress.com/ Cheers

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Difference between SmartSyntaxInterpreterPlugin and InterpreterPlugin
by Mariano Martinez Peck 08 Mar '11

08 Mar '11

Hi, after the talk of Igor in Deep Smalltalk School, I wonder which is the difference between SmartSyntaxInterpreterPlugin and InterpreterPlugin. From the class comments I cannot see it, and it seems each of them has its own subclasses. So, what is the difference? if I write my own plugin, which one should I subclass from? thanks a lot in advance, Mariano

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Fwd: [participants-ecole-mars2011] SmalltalkEcole: Slides of Today
by Mariano Martinez Peck 07 Mar '11

07 Mar '11

Really nice presentation for VM beginners. I was recorded....I will send a link when this is uploaded. cheers mariano ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Mariano Martinez Peck <marianopeck(a)gmail.com> Date: Mon, Mar 7, 2011 at 8:02 PM Subject: Re: [participants-ecole-mars2011] SmalltalkEcole: Slides of Today To: Marcus Denker <marcus.denker(a)inria.fr> Cc: participants-ecole-mars2011(a)inria.fr, " Pharo-project(a)lists.gforge.inria.fr Development" < Pharo-project(a)lists.gforge.inria.fr> Thanks Marcus. And thanks Igor! the whole day has been excellent, very understandable (even for newbies like me). I hope the rest of the school continues as good as today. cheers Mariano On Mon, Mar 7, 2011 at 7:38 PM, Marcus Denker <marcus.denker(a)inria.fr>wrote: > Hi, > > Igors slides are now available: > > FFI: > http://dl.dropbox.com/u/2753738/About%20FFI.key.pdf > > JourneyInTheVM: > http://dl.dropbox.com/u/2753738/JourneyInTheVM.key.pdf > > -- > Marcus Denker -- http://www.marcusdenker.de > INRIA Lille -- Nord Europe. Team RMoD. > >

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VM-beginners March 2011