[Vm-dev] Re: VM Maker: VMMaker-oscog.34.mcz

[Eliot Miranda]

On Mon, Oct 4, 2010 at 9:49 AM, David T. Lewis <lewis at mail.msen.com> wrote:

>
> On Fri, Oct 01, 2010 at 04:36:22PM +0000,
> squeak-dev-noreply at lists.squeakfoundation.org wrote:
> > Eliot Miranda uploaded a new version of VMMaker to project VM Maker:
> > http://www.squeaksource.com/VMMaker/VMMaker-oscog.34.mcz
> >
> > ==================== Summary ====================
> >
> > Name: VMMaker-oscog.34
> > Author: eem
> > Time: 1 October 2010, 7:28:02 am
> > UUID: ec174a95-5f42-4fe0-88f0-4baff13dd3ce
> > Ancestors: VMMaker-oscog.33
> >
> > Warning: this may have difficulty loading into an image with
> > VMMaker already loaded and you'll almost certainly need to
> > recompile the package if you try this.
> >
> > Refactor to move ObjectMemory into objectMemory inst var
> > in StackInterpreter and subclass CoInterpreter.
> > Move the bulk of the core primitives to InterpreterPrimitives,
> > to allow eventual sharing of primitives between Cog and the
> > Interpreter..
>
> This looks really good. It decouples the interpreter from the object
> memory, and opens the possibility of mixing and matching different
> interpreters and object memories.
>

That's the main goal.   Also it allows us to share the bulk of the core
primitives between the Cog VMs and the Interpreter.
David, nag me and I'll try and apply the refactoring (and the replacement of
successFlag with primFailCode) to Interpreter so we can do this.

best
Eliot

>
> Dave
>
>
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