Re: What is byte-code ?

torbenm@diku.dk (=?iso-8859-1?q?Torben_=C6gidius_Mogensen?=)
8 Mar 2005 09:22:41 -0500

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From: torbenm@diku.dk (=?iso-8859-1?q?Torben_=C6gidius_Mogensen?=)
Newsgroups: comp.compilers
Date: 8 Mar 2005 09:22:41 -0500
Organization: Department of Computer Science, University of Copenhagen
References: 05-03-015 05-03-027 05-03-033
Keywords: interpreter
Posted-Date: 08 Mar 2005 09:22:41 EST

nmm1@cus.cam.ac.uk (Nick Maclaren) writes:


> Anton Ertl <anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at> wrote:


> >As for "virtual machine", in this context it means a flat, sequential
> >intermediate representation of the programs, consisting of virtual
> >machine instructions, with some similarities to real-machine code.
>
> Nah. I will give you most of that, but NOT "sequential". Parallel
> ones have existed, but I now forget good references.


I'm sure Anton Ertl meant that the code has a sequential layout
(syntax), not that the semantics are necessarily sequential. Of
course, anything stored in a file has a sequential layout, but I think
Anton referred to the code being a linear sequence of instructions
rather than a syntax tree.


                Torben

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