[comp.archives] [compilers] Re: info on byte-coded and other fast interpreters

oz@nexus.yorku.ca (Ozan Yigit) (03/21/91)

Archive-name: languages/smalltalk/little-smalltalk/0--
Archive-directory: cs.orst.edu:/pub/budd/smv3/ [128.193.32.1]
Original-posting-by: oz@nexus.yorku.ca (Ozan Yigit)
Original-subject: Re: info on byte-coded and other fast interpreters
Reposted-by: emv@msen.com (Edward Vielmetti, MSEN)

In article <2321@fornax.UUCP> bremner@cs.sfu.ca (David Bremner) writes:
>Don't forget Smalltalk-80.  A reasonable description of the byte-code
>interpreter can be found in "Smalltalk-80, the language and its
>implementation" by Adele Goldberg.

The details of a very similar bytecode interpreter may be found in
Tim Budd's book "A Little Smalltalk". A more recent version of that
code is a part of the little smalltalk (v.3) distribution, ftp-able
from cs.orst.edu [128.193.32.1], under pub/budd.

enjoy...	oz
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adrianho@barkley.Berkeley.EDU (Adrian J Ho) (03/22/91)

Archive-name: languages/lisp/oaklisp/1991-03-21
Archive-directory: f.gp.cs.cmu.edu:/usr/bap/oak/ftpable/ [128.2.250.164]
Original-posting-by: adrianho@barkley.Berkeley.EDU (Adrian J Ho)
Original-subject: Re: info on byte-coded and other fast interpreters
Reposted-by: emv@msen.com (Edward Vielmetti, MSEN)

For a (perhaps) more up-to-date reference, check out:

"The Oaklisp Implementation Guide", Barak Pearlmutter & Kevin Lang,
Jan 15, 1990.

This manual, along with the sources to Oaklisp and "The Oaklisp
Langauge Manual", can be found at:

f.gp.cs.cmu.edu: /usr/bap/oak/ftpable/  [128.2.250.164]

Note that this site, along with most others at CMU, imposes a curious
restriction in that you can't specify '..' in paths.  You'll therefore
have to cd directly to the specified (no browsing 8-).

Also, I corresponded with Barak last month, and he mentioned that the
implementation of Oaklisp is also described in a chapter of "Topics in
Advanced Language Implementation" (ed. Peter Lee, MIT Press, 1990).

Good luck!
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