"Julian Morrison" a �crit dans le message news: 980822461.5977.0.nnrp-12.9e98cc46@news.demon.co.uk... > 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. Sure. You could even call it ANDF. And there's already an Ada compiler for it (DDC). -- --------------------------------------------------------- J-P. Rosen (Rosen.Adalog@wanadoo.fr) Visit Adalog's web site at http://pro.wanadoo.fr/adalog