Christian Tismer wrote:
I believe, no. Instead, I think to supply a generic virtual machine which is easy to produce code for, tpgether with a very fast interpreter. That engine would run on any machine and would be enough to do the full bootstrap, when the specific machine is defined, later.
Is anyone on this list familiar with the current state of Parrot? All I know is: http://cvs.perl.org/cvsweb/parrot/ChangeLog?rev=1.4&content-type=text/x-cvsweb-markup Additionally, is anyone here familiar with some of the work that's been done on AOS, related to SmallScript, a version of SmallTalk (see e.g. http://www.smallscript.org/SmallScriptWebsite.asp#AOS). I have the impression that those folks have done some interesting work, although their non-open-source nature makes it hard to evaluate. --david