[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
People seem to insist on calling virtual machine binaries "bytecode". AFAIK, Sun and Java started this trend.
No, Smalltalk-80 did. Because the codes were bytes, ya see. :-) Since it was a stack-based dynamic dispatch language, all you needed was the opcodes. (I forget offhand what they did for integer literals, but I think they were stored as instance variables.)
Seems we really need a better name for "virtual machine code".
Why? -- Darren New / San Diego, CA, USA (PST) -- KPLUG-LPSG@kernel-panic.org http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-lpsg
