Hi,
On 10/25/07, Joerg Beekmann Joerg@deepcovelabs.com wrote:
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?
my hope is that it will lead to a different and more high-level development approach for the Squeak VM. While Slang does a good job for the VM as it is, it is certainly not using high-level abstractions (and never had the intention to), which would be much more convenient.
Of course, high-level abstractions may prevent dealing with low-level details, which are all over the place in VM implementations. This is where the tool chain comes into play: the gory details are realised by means of applying smart tools to the high-level source code.
I think the PyPy approach is extremely promising.
Best,
Michael