[Vm-dev] Interpreter simulator error

[K K Subbu]

On 08/05/20 2:47 am, Eliot Miranda wrote:
> Hi Subbu,
> 
>      I had to make some changes to get the Balloon plugin to simulate 
> correctly.  You might want to take a look at BalloonArray and CArray et 
> al in VMMaker.oscog and see your way to porting the changes to VMMaker.  
> Better would be to get Interpreter up-to-date in VMMaker.oscog.  A 
> sensible end point has to be an Interpreter which is refactored like 
> StackInterprteer is (i.e. it does not inherit from ObjectMemory) and 
> that has the improvements Andreas implemented to e.g. the sample profile 
> primitives, etc.  Right now we have a fork, and I have no cycles I can 
> spend to working on Interpreter in either context.  I'd love to see 
> someone tackle being able to derive a classic Interpreter VM from 
> VMMaker.oscog.  VMMaker.oscog has a much improved Slang, and of course 
> is where Cog is developed.

Eliot,

Thank you very much for these pointers. I am a weekend Squeaker, but I 
will get more time to work on VM later this month and you have just 
given me a worthy goal.

Regards .. Subbu