Re: How to write a virtual machine and simulator

I would have to disagree. I find the book to be a very helpful survey
of what it takes to build a virtual machine. It does discuss a variety
of design decisions and why he made the choices he did. I think it's
actually a good thing that he stuck to one implimentation. It allowed
him to thoroughly cover all of his design decisions and exactly how
that one implimentation works. Had he just done a survey of a variety
of techniques one of two things would have had to happen:


1. The book would have had to be HUGE and horribly expensive


or


2. A large amount of the detail in the book would have had to be
sacrificed.


"Randy Crawford" <crwfrd@umich.edu> wrote
> I found Blunden's book to be other than what I had hoped. Instead of
> surveying the field of virtual machines and runtime
> environments... discussing their applications, the designs, and the
> implementation tradeoffs, it discusses ONLY a single implementation --
> that of the author -- and what he did, rather than why.
>
> As an intro to VMs, I cannot reccomend this book.

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