On Saturday, December 14, 2002, at 11:54  Uhr, PhiHo Hoang wrote:

>> Incidentally, the CocoaSqueak VM does this sort of stuff simply by
>> setting instance variables in the SqueakInterpreter object.
>
>     Does each instance of Interpreter have its own instance
>     of ObjectMemory :-)

Well....there is the interp.m translation of the VM to Objective-C, 
which has Interpreter as a subclass of ObjectMemory, just like the 
Squeak source.  This even manages to execute a few thousand bytecodes 
until it reaches a primitive that is hard-coded as a C-call, instead of 
being translated.

Marcel

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