[Vm-dev] [OT] Blog sequence "Journey through the VM"

David T. Lewis lewis at mail.msen.com
Thu Mar 31 23:31:02 UTC 2011


Great! Thanks for doing this and I'm looking forward to reading more
of your blog posts.

Dave

On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 10:28:40PM +0200, Mariano Martinez Peck wrote:
>  
> 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/smalltalk>.
> 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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