[Vm-dev] CogVM Execution Flow

[Ben Coman]

On Tue, Jun 14, 2016 at 12:36 AM, Eliot Miranda <eliot.miranda at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Ben,
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>     this looks fabulous.  I've just skimmed on my phone and will look in more depth later but this is an extremely valuable and illuminating approach, visualizing something I have in my head but that is difficult to describe.  Thanks for doing this!! One thing I would love for you to do (and I can help) is to create two diagrams, one for the simulator and one for the real VM, and relate the two, for example by colour-coding the common activities, and hence identifying simulator-only "distractions".
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> _,,,^..^,,,_ (phone)
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>> On Jun 13, 2016, at 6:24 AM, Ben Coman <btc at openinworld.com> wrote:
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>> In trying to understand the flow of execution (and in particular the
>> jumps in the jitted VM, I made a first rough pass to map it in the
>> attached chart.
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>> I am trying to colourize it to distinguish between paths that can
>> return to the interpreter, those that circulate in jitted code, and
>> the transitions.  I'm sure I've missed the mark a bit but its a start.
>> Of course corrections welcome, even scanned pen sketches.
>>
>> cheer -ben
>> <CogVM-Execution-Flow (2016.06.13c).png>

I consolidated a few boxes and aligned common tasks, particularly the
returnToExecutive one.
cheers -ben
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