On Fri, Jul 4, 2008 at 5:22 PM, tim Rowledge <tim at rowledge.org> wrote:

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> On 4-Jul-08, at 6:35 AM, Eliot Miranda wrote:
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>> Thanks Tim!  That's what I needed.  Being pointed to the right place.  It
>> has taken 20 minutes to understand the code and 20 minutes to fix it.
>>  Thanks so much!!
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> Nice to have actually achieved something this week; it's been one of those
> weeks...
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> Simulating simulating the VM to gather type data seems like a pretty
> complex project. I can't help feeling it would be simpler and faster to
> simply write the VM cleanly, with decent documentation and specs.


But that's exactly what this project would allow one to do.  One implements
a VM in Smalltalk as cleanly designed as one can.  If implementing a JIT
then include a simulator for the processor.  Then simulate this
written-in-Smalltalk VM and translate this clean design to (e.g.) C removing
polymorphism and generating vanilla code based on the type information
collected.

Igor, if you can produce a Better Slang With Lambas, do please share the
> code. There has to be some way of cleaning up the current mess.
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> tim
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