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

[Igor Stasenko]

On 21 March 2011 05:45, Eliot Miranda <eliot.miranda at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Sun, Mar 20, 2011 at 8:18 PM, Levente Uzonyi <leves at elte.hu> wrote:
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>> On Sat, 19 Mar 2011, Igor Stasenko wrote:
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>>> Hello,
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>>> 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.
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>> Sounds good.
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>>> Currently i am using following naming scheme:
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>>> - VMs based on StackInterpreter:
>>>  StackVM
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>>> - VMs with JIT
>>>  Cog
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>>> - VMs with JIT + MT
>>>  CogMT
>>>
>>> i am open for suggestions of giving better/proper names.
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>> What about sticking VM to the end of each of them? Like here:
>> StackVM, CogVM, CogMTVM, and InterpreterVM
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> I like the VM suffix.  But what would really float my boat would be if InterpreterVM was called ContextVM.  Taking Igor's list anew
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> -Interpreted VMs using contexts based on Interpreter
>   ContextVM
> - Interpreted VMs using a stack organization based on StackInterpreter:
>  StackVM
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> - Co-Interpreter+JIT VMs using a stack organization based on CoInterpreter:
>  CogVM
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> - Co-Interpreter+JIT VMs using a stack organization and with multi-threading FFI support based on CoInterpreterMT
>  CogMTVM

Good.
except that we don't have configs to build ContextVM.



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Best regards,
Igor Stasenko AKA sig.