On Tue, Dec 10, 2013 at 9:50 AM, St�phane Ducasse <stephane.ducasse@inria.fr> wrote:

On Dec 9, 2013, at 10:45 PM, phil@highoctane.be wrote:

> Now, moving forward, what would be required to have an interpreter embedded in C, even if this means having another image with a special API and the whole enchilada?
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> At least a working prototype.
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> I have looked at the "Porting the VM" document and the part about headless (which is now done differently).
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> What comes to my mind is to define a specific neutral C platform that would be able to execute basic bytecode.
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> From videos of Ben, I saw SystemTracer (or SystemTracer2) recreating a very tiny image making some noise to prove it was working.
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> Could it be possible to target this kind of tiny image running inside a C program through a base interpreter? This would avoid having to deal with the whole primitives and plugins at the beginning.

Guille continued and we are working to use his bootstrap as a basis for 4.0.
Now you will need the key primitives such as become: at: at:put: and other.

Stef