I am intruiged by what motivated this? Is it curiosity, will it create a VM that is better in some way, will it result in a better mechanism for creating VMs?
Joerg
-----Original Message----- From: vm-dev-bounces@lists.squeakfoundation.org [mailto:vm-dev-bounces@lists.squeakfoundation.org] On Behalf Of Adrian Kuhn Sent: October 22, 2007 11:43 PM To: Squeak Virtual Machine Development Discussion Subject: Re: [Vm-dev] Pypy-Squeak VM generation news
Hi Andreas and Michael,
On 22 Oct 2007, at 23:25 , Michael Haupt wrote:
My guess is it's "use the PyPy *tool chain* to generate a Squeak VM".
And what exactly does *that* mean? Rewrite the code generator in Python to generate C code from Slang? Rewrite the VM in
Python? Use
PyPy translation tools to generate code from Squeak parse trees? There are so many possible ways of "using tools" ...
it means (simplified) rewriting the VM in Python and compiling it using the PyPy tool chain.
more precise, it means writing a Smalltalk bytecode interpreter in RPython and using the PyPy tool chain to generate a VM out of this.