jsr@dit.upm.es (Joaquin Salvachua) (05/23/91)
Could any kind soul send me some references about virtual machines for
differents languages (functional or not).
There was some discussion about it some time ago, but i lost my files.
thanks in advances
Joaquin.
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Alternatives: jsalvachua@goya.uucpwilson@uicbert.eecs.uic.edu (Paul Wilson) (05/24/91)
jsr@dit.upm.es (Joaquin Salvachua) writes: >Could any kind soul send me some references about virtual machines for >differents languages (functional or not). >There was some discussion about it some time ago, but i lost my files. I strongly recommend having a look at the Self papers by Chambers and Ungar and Hoelzle, e.g., their '89 OOPSLA paper and '89 SIGPLAN paper. Stay tuned for another one from them at ECOOP. The first two are in SIGPLAN Notices special issues, July & October '89. They have the spiffiest virtual machine ever, they also cite previous work (especially in the Smalltalk genre) so they're a good place to start. (Self is a very dynamically typed language, sort of like Smalltalk but simpler because it's based on prototypes instead of classes. But they do nifty things to make it much *faster* than Smalltalk. The same techniques would apply with some variations to optimizing most polymorphic languages.) -- Paul | Paul R. Wilson, Interactive Computing Envts. Lab. lab ph.: (312) 996-9216 | | U. of Illinois at Chicago EECS Dept. (M/C 154) wilson@bert.eecs.uic.edu* | | P.O. Box 4348 Chicago,IL 60680 fax ph.: (312) 413-0024 | | *Next yr, Asst Prof, U of Texas CS Dept; after 8/1 use wilson@cs.utexas.edu | -- Paul R. Wilson lab ph.: (312) 996-9216 Interactive Computing Environments (ICE) Lab. FAX no.: (312) 413-0024 U. of Ill. at Chicago EECS Dept. (M/C 154) wilson@bert.eecs.uic.edu P.O. Box 4348 Chicago,IL 60680