[Vm-dev] HackerNews + vm-dev = a lightbulb saying "STACK!"

Eliot Miranda eliot.miranda at gmail.com
Wed Oct 10 17:22:41 UTC 2012


On Wed, Oct 10, 2012 at 1:20 AM, Göran Krampe <goran at krampe.se> wrote:

>
> On 10/10/2012 12:35 AM, Eliot Miranda wrote:
>
>> <pedantry alert>
>>
> [SNIP of really nice and compact description of the Stack VM]
>
> Eliot, I love it when you write about these things. You... technical
> freak! :)
>
> ...so what's next in Cog land? GC revamp? More NB interplay?
>

Right now I'm redesigning the bytecode set to lift limits on branch
distances, number of literals, and number of inst vars.  So a small
increment.  I hope to get the green light for the GC revamp because that's
important for performance, but he who pays the piper picks the tune.


>
> regards, Göran
>



-- 
best,
Eliot
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