[Vm-dev] Cog/JIT/Stack/VM .. executable names

stephane ducasse stephane.ducasse at gmail.com
Sun Mar 20 08:38:24 UTC 2011


what means MT?

Stef
On Mar 19, 2011, at 11:03 PM, Igor Stasenko wrote:

> 
> Hello,
> 
> there is an explosion of different kinds of VM we're building today..
> and i think it would be nice to use different names for them.
> Currently i am using following naming scheme:
> 
> - VMs based on StackInterpreter:
>  StackVM
> 
> - VMs with JIT
>  Cog
> 
> - VMs with JIT + MT
>  CogMT
> 
> i am open for suggestions of giving better/proper names.
> 
> Maybe for end-user it is not important to use different names
> (squeak.. yeah.. this is squeak.. who cares)..
> but when testing VMs and/or opening older images with proper VMs it
> turns into a puzzle game.
> Also, i think that Cog is good name and executables deserve to carry
> this name (instead of squeak or croquet).
> That's why i'm not questioning whether new VMs should use different
> names. I am only questioning which names we should use :)
> 
> 
> -- 
> Best regards,
> Igor Stasenko AKA sig.



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