Re: Design of Virtual Machines

Allan MacKinnon <allanmac@blueprint.com>
6 Apr 1997 22:24:35 -0400

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From: Allan MacKinnon <allanmac@blueprint.com>
Newsgroups: comp.compilers
Date: 6 Apr 1997 22:24:35 -0400
Organization: [under construction]
References: 97-04-026
Keywords: interpreter, architecture, books

Dave wrote:
>
> ...
> I am interested in the design of virtual machines, their architecture,
> instructions sets, the context they were uses in, interpreters and so
> on.
>


One book from 1989 is: "Interpretation and Instruction
Path Coprocessing", Eddy H. Debaere and Jan M. Van Campenhout,
MIT Press, ISBN 0-262-04107-3.




> [I'd suggest translating to Java byte codes and using one of the
> available Java interpreters. That way, as people produce better Java
> runtime implementations you can just use them. I can't think of any
> other VM designs that are getting much implementation attention other
> than the S/38-AS/400 which is a lot harder to find out about. -John]




Definitely the way to go...


ASM


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