On 12.09.2008, at 16:00, Norbert Hartl wrote:
On Mon, 2008-09-01 at 08:07 +0200, Stéphane Ducasse wrote:
Michael This is not a question for us. Let us face it seriously we are not expert on VM building
That is right. So this is a problem changing the code and maintaining our own vm. It's too much work without the necessary expertise. But on the other side the combination of vmmaker/slang/c does also not attract anyone to get into the vm stuff. So we would be bound to that a long time.
Wouldn't Spy (http://pypysqueak.blogspot.com/) be a benefit in the long run. I'm very interested in vm stuff (at the moment just reading). For me it is much more attractive approach I would try to dive into. My opinion is that it is more flexible and opens worlds like LLVM (http://llvm.org/) and friends for us. What do you think?
The Squeak-in-python was an experiment. It it not really realistic to think that the result will be a replacement for the current vm anytime soon. Marcus -- Marcus Denker -- denker@iam.unibe.ch http://www.iam.unibe.ch/~denker