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=-1.1 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00, PP_MIME_FAKE_ASCII_TEXT autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII X-Google-Thread: 103376,e17a4d5bc0d42b86 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-01-29 23:18:12 PST Path: supernews.google.com!sn-xit-02!supernews.com!isdnet!fr.clara.net!heighliner.fr.clara.net!wanadoo.fr!not-for-mail From: "Jean-Pierre Rosen" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Ada and JVM? Why not AdaVM? Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2001 08:08:49 +0100 Organization: Wanadoo, l'internet avec France Telecom Message-ID: <955prj$le5$1@wanadoo.fr> References: <980822461.5977.0.nnrp-12.9e98cc46@news.demon.co.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: mix-tuileries-104-1-23.abo.wanadoo.fr X-Trace: wanadoo.fr 980839091 21957 193.250.183.23 (30 Jan 2001 07:18:11 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@wanadoo.fr NNTP-Posting-Date: 30 Jan 2001 07:18:11 GMT X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4133.2400 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Xref: supernews.google.com comp.lang.ada:4690 Date: 2001-01-30T07:18:11+00:00 List-Id: "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