[Vm-dev] Pypy-Squeak VM generation news

Michael Haupt mhaupt at gmail.com
Mon Oct 22 21:25:07 UTC 2007


Hi Andreas,

On 10/22/07, Andreas Raab <andreas.raab at gmx.de> wrote:
> > My guess is it's "use the PyPy *tool chain* to generate a Squeak VM".
>
> And what exactly does *that* mean? Rewrite the code generator in Python
> to generate C code from Slang? Rewrite the VM in Python? Use PyPy
> translation tools to generate code from Squeak parse trees? There are so
> many possible ways of "using tools" ...

it means (simplified) rewriting the VM in Python and compiling it
using the PyPy tool chain.

Best,

Michael


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