Re: Interpretable intermediate code design?

Alexander Kjeldaas <a_s_t_o_r@guardian.no>
20 Feb 1998 17:57:50 -0500

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From: Alexander Kjeldaas <a_s_t_o_r@guardian.no>
Newsgroups: comp.compilers
Date: 20 Feb 1998 17:57:50 -0500
Organization: Guardian Networks AS
References: 98-02-053
Keywords: interpreter

[Joachim Durchholz <joachim.durchholz@munich.netsurf.de>]
| I'm in need for an intermediate code format that's also usable as VM
| code. References to relevant design principles preferred, though
| existing designs are appreciated, too. I.e. I know the JVM format
| (roughly), but I don't know wether it's good or bad, and even if I
| knew I wouldn't know why and I wouldn't be able to improve on it.
|

The following papers from The SIGPLAN Workshop on Intermediate
Representations (IR '95) could be interesting. The first basically
describes the JavaVM, while the other describes a competing
intermediate code developed at sun that is quite fast.

Oak Intermediate Bytecodes by James Gosling (Sun Microsystems
Laboratories).

Clarity Mcode: A Retargetable Intermediate Representation for
Compilation by Brian T. Lewis (Sun Microsystms Laboratories).

IR '95 is available for free [but not online] as a technical report
from Microsoft Research.

http://www.research.microsoft.com/pubs/tr-95-01a.html

astor

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