Re: Design of Virtual Machines

David L Moore <dlmoore@ix.netcom.com>
6 Apr 1997 22:27:13 -0400

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From: David L Moore <dlmoore@ix.netcom.com>
Newsgroups: comp.compilers
Date: 6 Apr 1997 22:27:13 -0400
Organization: Netcom
References: 97-04-026
Keywords: interpreter, tools

> I am part of a group at Massey university building a meta-CASE tool.
> Part of this work is related to an object orientated language we have
> designed for representing software engineering methodologies.
> I am interested in the design of virtual machines, their architecture,
> instructions sets, the context they were uses in, interpreters and so on.


To which Dave replied:


Rather than a virtual machine, for case tools you probably want a
permanent repesentation. A permanent representation is more or less
the source with the syntactic sugar taken out and various tables (like
identifier tables) built - it is a tree or a graph.


I see no reason why such a representation could not be made
executable, perhaps using partial evaluation.
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