[Vm-dev] Pypy-Squeak VM generation news

[Joerg Beekmann]

I am intruiged by what motivated this? Is it curiosity, will it create a
VM that is better in some way, will it result in a better mechanism for
creating VMs?


Joerg
 

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> [mailto:vm-dev-bounces at lists.squeakfoundation.org] On Behalf 
> Of Adrian Kuhn
> Sent: October 22, 2007 11:43 PM
> To: Squeak Virtual Machine Development Discussion
> Subject: Re: [Vm-dev] Pypy-Squeak VM generation news
> 
>  
> Hi Andreas and Michael,
> 
> On 22 Oct 2007, at 23:25 , Michael Haupt 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.
> 
> more precise, it means writing a Smalltalk bytecode 
> interpreter in RPython and using the PyPy tool chain to 
> generate a VM out of this.