This is awesome, thank you all very much for the background information and
great examples that you've provided. I think it is quite clear now what the
difference is between these two runtimes.
Cheers,
Pablo
On Thursday, September 6, 2018 at 3:16:59 AM UTC+10, Michael Jones wrote:
>
> These
These are all great! If Pablo gets these points across to students, they
will be well-informed.
There is an interesting parallel to human languages. When I was a boy my
father told me "you don't know a word if you can't define it." Sometimes
people are comfortable with words they understand
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\0, Pablo,
IMHO although the runtime and VM both provide facilities such as garbage
collection, scheduling ect they are not alike at all. Actually that is the
ONLY way they are alike. VM run compiled bytcode like others stated, but
the VM is a whole program on its own, which is run, and
Michael,
I agree that this is probably more useful in the long-term. Thank you for
adding the detail.
Cheers,
Chris
On Tue, Sep 4, 2018, 21:08 Michael Jones wrote:
> I might tell students step by step:
>
> machine code is understood and executed by a machine.
> -> the intel instruction to
> most languages offer programs at least some operating system like services
> via a runtime service layer
> -> in C, this was initially "crt0" the thin c runtime
> -> in Go, the service layer is richer, offering thread management and
> goroutine multiplexing, garbage collection, and more.
>
>
I might tell students step by step:
machine code is understood and executed by a machine.
-> the intel instruction to increment a register is decoded and executed by
the CPU's hardware.
virtual code is understood and executed by a program that pretends to be
some virtual CPU.
-> a Java VM might
On Wednesday, 5 September 2018 01:57:33 UTC+2, Pablo Rozas Larraondo wrote:
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> If I understand it correctly we could say then that Go's runtime has
> things in common with a VM's runtime (I'm thinking mostly in Java's) such
> as GC, goroutine (thread) scheduling, etc. However, Go's runtime
Hi Pablo,
Yes, that sounds like a reasonable differentiation for students. Of course,
it is more complex than that, but it's a good first principles introduction.
Cheers,
Chris
On Tue, Sep 4, 2018, 16:57 Pablo Rozas Larraondo <
p.rozas.larrao...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Thanks for the answers. I
Thanks for the answers. I asked this question because I'm preparing some
tutorials to explain Go to students and I'm thinking about potential
questions and discussions.
If I understand it correctly we could say then that Go's runtime has things
in common with a VM's runtime (I'm thinking
There are a lot of differences, and for the answer to be complete, you
would need to specify which language you wanted to compare it to. But on a
really simple level, thwd's answer is more or less correct. A VM language
is usually compiled into an instruction set for that VM. The VM then
A virtual machine has its own instruction set. Go compiles to machine code
for a given target (which could be a virtual machine).
On Tuesday, September 4, 2018 at 12:27:49 PM UTC+2, Pablo Rozas Larraondo
wrote:
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> The Go documentation provides some explanation about the difference
> between
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