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[Thomas Fjellstrom]

;)

Ok. Now that I've hopefully got someone's attention, I've been messing with 
VMs for the better part of a couple years. My current project is a little 
fancier than the last I posted on the list (If anyone remembers CHIP ;)) In 
fact, before long is started looking a bit like parrot :) (great minds think 
alike I say) But I'm not aiming for the same audience as parrot, and I want 
to write a vm (quite a few people have thrown the "wheel reinvention" 
argument at me, my answer is "I want to")

So far my setup has a computed goto dispatch system, OO base type, 
simple opcode format with semi variable arg count (5 max). And a (so far) 
simple optimization layer that will pre-dereference certian opcode arguments 
(objects etc). No GC atm. I'll probably start with a simple refcounting 
system, or if I can figure out a good way to do a mark/sweep algo, I'd do 
that.

I'm still in the middle of rewriting the typesystem, but I thought I'd tell 
people about it, and maybe get some pointers, and possibly see what others 
are doing (I already keep up on parrot's development, not that I understand 
it all :))

-- 
Thomas Fjellstrom
tfjellstrom at strangesoft.net
http://strangesoft.net