From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,e17a4d5bc0d42b86 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-01-30 05:11:52 PST Path: supernews.google.com!sn-xit-02!supernews.com!isdnet!diablo.theplanet.net!194.165.206.5.MISMATCH!news2.vas-net.net!server2.netnews.ja.net!newshost.central.susx.ac.uk!news.bton.ac.uk!not-for-mail From: John English Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Ada and JVM? Why not AdaVM? Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2001 12:55:19 +0000 Organization: University of Brighton Message-ID: <3A76B9B7.FB85AAF3@bton.ac.uk> References: <980822461.5977.0.nnrp-12.9e98cc46@news.demon.co.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: straumli.it.bton.ac.uk Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: saturn.bton.ac.uk 980859301 2354 193.62.183.204 (30 Jan 2001 12:55:01 GMT) X-Complaints-To: news@bton.ac.uk NNTP-Posting-Date: 30 Jan 2001 12:55:01 GMT X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (Win95; I) X-Accept-Language: en Xref: supernews.google.com comp.lang.ada:4701 Date: 2001-01-30T12:55:01+00:00 List-Id: 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... ;-) ----------------------------------------------------------------- John English | mailto:je@brighton.ac.uk Senior Lecturer | http://www.it.bton.ac.uk/staff/je Dept. of Computing | ** NON-PROFIT CD FOR CS STUDENTS ** University of Brighton | -- see http://burks.bton.ac.uk -----------------------------------------------------------------