Re: Ada and JVM? Why not AdaVM?

[John English <je@bton.ac.uk>]

Julian Morrison wrote:
> 
> More interesting idea than "yet another VM", here's an idea (inspirations:
> the new Amiga's "Elate"OS, and Perl)
> 
> Build what is not a VM, but actually a universal compiler backend. The
> input is not pseudo-machine-code, but a language independent  parse tree
> preserving full debugging semantics etc.
> 
> The VM can compile it, interpret it, JIT it, whatever. It can also move
> slices of it to other machines or other processors transparently, or
> migrate it off an about-to-be swapped CPU onto another one without losing
> a beat. On each CPU it can optimize for the specific processor.
> 
> Looks like a good idea to me, anyhow.

Yup, just like UNCOL looked like a good idea in about 1960... ;-)

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