<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div>On 19.03.2011, at 19:33, Eliot Miranda wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div class="gmail_quote"><div>I think we urgently need to merge. </div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Yep.</div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div class="gmail_quote"><div> I haven't looked yet but has Interpreter been refactored out from under ObjectMemory? If it hasn't would you be happy for me to do that? </div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>That would be awesome!</div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div class="gmail_quote"><div>Things that I think need to be done to Interpreter are</div>
<div><br></div><div>a) refactor it out from under ObjectMemory and under InterpreterPrimitives</div><div>b) use NewObjectMemory (it's a tad faster)</div><div>c) throw away four of the method cache fields used only by Jitter, which de facto is now obsolete, and use the StackInterpreter's folding of primitiveIndex and primitiveFunction (it's a tad faster)</div>
<div>d) also use platform-order floats (it's a tad faster)</div><div><br></div><div>What is useful about Interpreter is</div><div>a) it doesn't need a threaded or interrupt-driven heartbeat so it is simpler to port to bare metal</div>
<div>b) it uses contexts and lacks all the complexity of context-to-stack mapping and so for many VM experiments it is significantly simpler to understand and extend, and for certain context-intensive computations it may be faster</div>
<div><br></div><div>So for me its worth keeping all these VMs, but the merge task is tedious and expensive so I would like there to be only one main line.</div><div><br></div><div>are we, the VM devs (Ian, Andreas, David, Igor, Myself, others?) in agreement?</div>
</div></blockquote><br></div><div>+1</div><br><div>
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