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
