[virtmach] Your VM

Anton Ertl anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at
Wed, 30 May 2001 17:54:24 +0200 (MET DST)


rog@vitanuova.com wrote:
> 
> > Exactly!  :)
> >
> > The Beasts VM has 3 core loops, one each for "standard", "debug" and
> > "profile"!
> 
> funny thing that... the reason i was looking at the inferno core
> loop is that someone here was implementing profiling... and
> had implemented a third core loop to do it!
> 
> convergent evolution might signify that someone's doing
> something right somewhere...

The example VM of vmgen also has standard (fast), debug (trace), and
profile as options; however, there are only two instances of the VM
engine, basically the fast one (engine.o) and the slow one
(engine-debug.o).

- anton