[Vm-dev] [OT] Blog sequence "Journey through the VM"

Mariano Martinez Peck marianopeck at gmail.com
Sat Apr 2 17:12:45 UTC 2011


Thanks everybody for the nice welcome and words. The journey has already its
departure:

http://marianopeck.wordpress.com/2011/04/02/departure-vm-introduction/

I won't bother anymore in the mailing lists...so if you want to follow,
check the website or use rss/mail notification.

Cheers

Mariano

On Fri, Apr 1, 2011 at 1:31 AM, David T. Lewis <lewis at mail.msen.com> wrote:

>
> Great! Thanks for doing this and I'm looking forward to reading more
> of your blog posts.
>
> Dave
>
> On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 10:28:40PM +0200, Mariano Martinez Peck wrote:
> >
> > Hi folks. I will start a sequence of VM related posts called ?Journey
> > through the VM?,  similar to what Igor did in Deep Smalltalk
> > School<
> http://www.inria.fr/centre-de-recherche-inria/lille-nord-europe/agenda/smalltalk
> >.
> > My main focus is that a regular Smalltalker, without any knowledge in VM
> > stuff can understand the basis of it (ObjectMemory, Interpreter, etc). In
> > addition, I expect the reader can download, change, compile,  run, and
> debug
> > (and why not fixing?) the VM.
> >
> > Later on in the journey, I would also like to talk about what the
> compiler
> > does, what bytecodes are, how to read them, how they are mapped to the
> VM,
> > etc. I will also show some hooks or tricks that the VM provides and that
> are
> > not always known. Moreover, I will explain what a primitive is, how they
> are
> > executed by the VM, how you can write your own primitives, etc. FFI and
> > writing your own plugin are also in my plans.
> >
> > It is important to notice that all these posts are thought for VM
> newbies. I
> > would appreciate if there can be some VM hackers paying attention that I
> > don't say stupid things.
> >
> > http://marianopeck.wordpress.com/
> >
> > Cheers
>
>
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