Thanks everybody for the nice welcome and words. The journey has already its departure:<br><br><a href="http://marianopeck.wordpress.com/2011/04/02/departure-vm-introduction/">http://marianopeck.wordpress.com/2011/04/02/departure-vm-introduction/</a><br>
<br>I won't bother anymore in the mailing lists...so if you want to follow, check the website or use rss/mail notification.<br><br>Cheers<br><br>Mariano<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Apr 1, 2011 at 1:31 AM, David T. Lewis <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:lewis@mail.msen.com">lewis@mail.msen.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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Great! Thanks for doing this and I'm looking forward to reading more<br>
of your blog posts.<br>
<br>
Dave<br>
<div class="im"><br>
On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 10:28:40PM +0200, Mariano Martinez Peck wrote:<br>
><br>
> Hi folks. I will start a sequence of VM related posts called ?Journey<br>
> through the VM?, similar to what Igor did in Deep Smalltalk<br>
</div>> School<<a href="http://www.inria.fr/centre-de-recherche-inria/lille-nord-europe/agenda/smalltalk" target="_blank">http://www.inria.fr/centre-de-recherche-inria/lille-nord-europe/agenda/smalltalk</a>>.<br>
<div><div></div><div class="h5">> My main focus is that a regular Smalltalker, without any knowledge in VM<br>
> stuff can understand the basis of it (ObjectMemory, Interpreter, etc). In<br>
> addition, I expect the reader can download, change, compile, run, and debug<br>
> (and why not fixing?) the VM.<br>
><br>
> Later on in the journey, I would also like to talk about what the compiler<br>
> does, what bytecodes are, how to read them, how they are mapped to the VM,<br>
> etc. I will also show some hooks or tricks that the VM provides and that are<br>
> not always known. Moreover, I will explain what a primitive is, how they are<br>
> executed by the VM, how you can write your own primitives, etc. FFI and<br>
> writing your own plugin are also in my plans.<br>
><br>
> It is important to notice that all these posts are thought for VM newbies. I<br>
> would appreciate if there can be some VM hackers paying attention that I<br>
> don't say stupid things.<br>
><br>
> <a href="http://marianopeck.wordpress.com/" target="_blank">http://marianopeck.wordpress.com/</a><br>
><br>
> Cheers<br>
<br>
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