Thanks everybody for the nice welcome and words. The journey has already its departure:
http://marianopeck.wordpress.com/2011/04/02/departure-vm-introduction/ I won't bother anymore in the mailing lists...so if you want to follow, check the website or use rss/mail notification. Cheers Mariano On Fri, Apr 1, 2011 at 1:31 AM, David T. Lewis <[email protected]> wrote: > > Great! Thanks for doing this and I'm looking forward to reading more > of your blog posts. > > Dave > > On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 10:28:40PM +0200, Mariano Martinez Peck wrote: > > > > 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< > http://www.inria.fr/centre-de-recherche-inria/lille-nord-europe/agenda/smalltalk > >. > > 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 > >
