Thanks Mariano, this is deeply needed in order to distribute knowledge and to lower the entry barrier to the VM.
Cheers El jue, 31-03-2011 a las 22:28 +0200, Mariano Martinez Peck escribió: > 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 > > > _______________________________________________ > VM-beginners mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/vm-beginners -- Miguel Cobá http://twitter.com/MiguelCobaMtz http://miguel.leugim.com.mx
