[Vm-dev] CogVM Execution Flow

[Eliot Miranda]

Ben,

    this looks fabulous.  I've just skimmed on my phone and will look in more depth later but this is an extremely valuable and illuminating approach, visualizing something I have in my head but that is difficult to describe.  Thanks for doing this!! One thing I would love for you to do (and I can help) is to create two diagrams, one for the simulator and one for the real VM, and relate the two, for example by colour-coding the common activities, and hence identifying simulator-only "distractions".  

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> On Jun 13, 2016, at 6:24 AM, Ben Coman <btc at openinworld.com> wrote:
> 
> In trying to understand the flow of execution (and in particular the
> jumps in the jitted VM, I made a first rough pass to map it in the
> attached chart.
> 
> I am trying to colourize it to distinguish between paths that can
> return to the interpreter, those that circulate in jitted code, and
> the transitions.  I'm sure I've missed the mark a bit but its a start.
> Of course corrections welcome, even scanned pen sketches.
> 
> cheer -ben
> <CogVM-Execution-Flow (2016.06.13c).png>