stefan do you know how this is linked with pypy?
Stef On Jan 20, 2010, at 8:50 AM, Stefan Marr wrote: > > On 20 Jan 2010, at 06:12, Miguel Enrique Cobá Martinez wrote: > >> Parrot has just been released: >> http://www.parrot.org/news/2010/Parrot-2.0.0 >> >> I would like to know, from the VM experts from the community, if this VM >> can be used to run Smalltalk. > Well, as someone mentioned, there seems to be Smalltalk implementation... > > But, probably it is hard to get it fast. > Parrot uses a very unique approach. > Actually, they try to provide a language runtime for all kinds of languages, > and the right tools to build them: http://www.linux-mag.com/cache/7373/1.html > > Eliot mentioned primitives, well, there is no concept of a primitive in > Parrot. > Instead, they have a unification of bytecodes and primitives. The idea is, to > give you the tools to develop the bytecode you need for your language, which > can be loaded dynamically during execution. > It will be interesting to see, how they can get their JIT fast with this > strategy. > > Best > Stefan > > >> The site says that >> >> "Parrot is a virtual machine aimed at running all dynamic languages.". >> >> but I don't know anything about VM so this sounds to me a bit like black >> magic. >> >> Is there something in the squeak vm that is specific to the way >> smalltalk works or a generic virtual machine (maybe with a upper layer >> understanding Smalltalk specifics) can be used. >> >> Thanks for the answers >> >> -- >> Miguel Cobá >> http://miguel.leugim.com.mx >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Pharo-project mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.gforge.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pharo-project > > -- > Stefan Marr > Software Languages Lab > Vrije Universiteit Brussel > Pleinlaan 2 / B-1050 Brussels / Belgium > http://soft.vub.ac.be/~smarr > Phone: +32 2 629 3956 > Fax: +32 2 629 3525 > > > _______________________________________________ > Pharo-project mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.gforge.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pharo-project _______________________________________________ Pharo-project mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gforge.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pharo-project
