Re: Stacks, registers, and bytecode. (Oh, my!)

[Uri Guttman]

>>>>> "LW" == Larry Wall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

  LW> We basically tried this experiment with Perl 5, and it's only a
  LW> partial success.  Yes, you end up with a Perl VM that can run Perl
  LW> pretty fast, but it tends to complicate the mapping to other
  LW> virtual machines.  (Enough so that we still don't have a
  LW> reasonable way to run Perl on a JVM, despite several attempts.)

good point. does that mean we should think more risc like? my (very
limited) impression of the jvm is that it lower level and not too
dissimilar to p-code. how much closer to jvm (and $DIETY help us, .NET)
should our IL design go?

uri

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