Steven Shaw wrote: > 2008/4/24 Jon Harrop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> You may like the book "Compiling with continuations" by Appel. > > Thanks Jon. I really appreciate your whole reply. Appel's book is on > my todo list :) > >> I believe the designs of the JVM and (to a lesser extent) the CLR were much >> more backward looking than forward thinking because that is essential for >> commercial success. Had the same effort been put into the best theoretical >> design then I'm sure we could have had something much more productive (but >> totally incompatible). > > Hopefully with the DVM (MLVM) we will see a more forward thinking VM > in the near future. > > Perhaps some languages would benefit from a VM with heap-based frames > and primitive closures that could live on top on the DVM, optimising > heap-frames to stack-frames and other optimisations when possible.
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