"Noel J. Bergman" <noel at devtech.com> is widely believed to have written:

> > how about the new VM I'm working on with closures, plugin execution
> > engine, new compiled methods, cleaned up primitive (etc) coding, dumped
> > old junk, etc etc.
> 
> Is the ARM jitter in there?  :-)
Well, hopefully that would be value of the plugin execution engine idea.
Also I'd like to include the old Interval translator code somehow to
allow on-the-fly generation of plugins, maybe even VM fixes.

Actually I suppose there might even be room to do something a bit
HotSpot-ish and have a simple minded interpretation engine and a
Smalltalk direct-to-machine compiler to hit on common code. I guess now
that there are only three cpu architectures that matter (ARM, x86 & PPC)
there is a bit less to worry about when developing a translator.

tim

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