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

[Mariano Martinez Peck]

On Sun, Mar 20, 2011 at 9:38 AM, stephane ducasse <
stephane.ducasse at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> what means MT?
>

Multi Threaded or similar


>
> 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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