On Fri, Nov 14, 2003 at 11:49:51AM -0000, Peter Cooper wrote: > "Stéphane Payrard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I have bought "Virtual Machine Design and Implementation in C++" > > by Bill Blunden. This book has very positive reviews (see > > slashdot or amazon.com). It seems to impress people by the > > apparent width of covered topics. Most of it is off topic. The > > book gives to the moderately knowledgeable reader no insight > > about virtual machines or even about language compilation. > > I reviewed it for Slashdot, and posted a mini-review here too. I saw the > technical and design limitations, but enjoyed it none-the-less. On > reflection, perhaps a more accurate title for the book would have been > "Design and Implementation of /A/ Virtual Machine in C/C++". > [clipped]
My bad opinion was so forceful that I thought honest to mention that it was not shared by many people. You posted your mini-review to London.pm: http://kochi.etla.org/london.pm/html/2002/06/msg00076.html Piers Cawley will be happy to notice that Leon Brocard anwered in advance the question on the present trhead that asked about a good book on virtual machines: "No, there's suprisingly little out there on virtual machine design and development." -- stef > > Regards, > Peter Cooper > >
