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Norbert Am 31.03.2011 um 22:28 schrieb Mariano Martinez Peck: > Hi folks. I will start a sequence of VM related posts called “Journey through > the VM”, similar to what Igor did in Deep Smalltalk School. My main focus is > that a regular Smalltalker, without any knowledge in VM stuff can understand > the basis of it (ObjectMemory, Interpreter, etc). In addition, I expect the > reader can download, change, compile, run, and debug (and why not fixing?) > the VM. > Later on in the journey, I would also like to talk about what the compiler > does, what bytecodes are, how to read them, how they are mapped to the VM, > etc. I will also show some hooks or tricks that the VM provides and that are > not always known. Moreover, I will explain what a primitive is, how they are > executed by the VM, how you can write your own primitives, etc. FFI and > writing your own plugin are also in my plans. > > It is important to notice that all these posts are thought for VM newbies. I > would appreciate if there can be some VM hackers paying attention that I > don't say stupid things. > > http://marianopeck.wordpress.com/ > > Cheers > > >
