Stackless/microthreads merge news
Andreas Kupries
a.kupries at westend.com
Wed May 10 14:55:36 EDT 2000
Jeff Senn <senn at maya.com> writes:
>Christian Tismer <tismer at tismer.com> writes:
>> BTW the Kaffe code was interesting, especially how the JIT works.
>> I'll look into this again, but not for Java. ::))
> Ah yes... I looked at it a bit when he first was hacking.
> Food for thought:
> Several times I have considered what it would be like to have a
> 'simple-unified-VM' that supported continuations (if not full
> continuations -- then at least micro-threading) and could run
> Python, Java Script, Ruby, ... [Visual] Basic?, Perl??,
> ... Java????...
> It would not really be that hard -- I would give up type-strength
> and speed-performance in the first go-round in favor of a tiny and
> simple extremely portable VM that applied an extensible library of
> primitive functions to Python-style dynamically typed objects on the
> heap.
http://mini.net/pub/ts2/minotaur.html
(Forth underneath)
--
Sincerely,
Andreas Kupries <a.kupries at westend.com>
<http://www.purl.org/NET/akupries/>
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