Jesper, I find myself in rare but mild disagreement about your claims for stack-based virtual machines. Please have a look at this short paper about the Dis VM from Inferno: http://flint.cs.yale.edu/jvmsem/doc/inferno.ps
We found a JIT for Dis could be tiny, especially compared to Java JITs, and at the time outperformed Java. -rob On Tue, Feb 20, 2018 at 12:26 AM, Jesper Louis Andersen < jesper.louis.ander...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sun, Feb 18, 2018 at 4:47 AM Lars Seipel <lars.sei...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> >> Go already has a NaCl backend which might fit the bill. See >> misc/nacl/README for how to set it up. It links to a design document >> (https://golang.org/s/go13nacl) with some background. >> >> > The sucessor of that project is WebAssembly. > > WebAssembly is a really good design, where the virtual machine is formally > specified, with a testbed implementation in Ocaml. One of the defining > features is that the VM is a stack-vm with a twist: > > * Stack-based VMs usually have smaller opcodes (since you don't have to > specify registers to operate on) > * Stack-based VMs are usually easier to target > * WebAsm's VM is built in a way such that the layout of the stack is > statically known at compile time. > > The latter means that you can compile it to a register-based VM, which > tend to be faster at execution. > > Ok, C programs can only be implemented in it if you provide a shadow > stack. But given that C generally allows too much of the programmer, this > is perfect :) Also note, I don't think Go would need a shadow stack, but > there might be a subtlety somewhere which mandates it. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "golang-nuts" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to golang-nuts+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "golang-nuts" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to golang-nuts+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
