Stackless/microthreads merge news

[Andreas Kupries]

Jeff Senn <senn at maya.com> writes:
 
 >Christian Tismer <tismer at tismer.com> writes:
 >> BTW the Kaffe code was interesting, especially  how the JIT works.
 >> I'll look into this again, but not for Java. ::))
 
 > Ah yes... I looked at it a bit when he first was hacking.
 
 > Food for thought:
 
 > Several times I have considered what it would be like to have a
 > 'simple-unified-VM' that supported continuations (if not full
 > continuations -- then at least micro-threading) and could run
 > Python, Java Script, Ruby, ... [Visual] Basic?, Perl??,
 > ... Java????...
 
 > It would not really be that hard -- I would give up type-strength
 > and speed-performance in the first go-round in favor of a tiny and
 > simple extremely portable VM that applied an extensible library of
 > primitive functions to Python-style dynamically typed objects on the
 > heap.

http://mini.net/pub/ts2/minotaur.html
(Forth underneath)

-- 
Sincerely,
	Andreas Kupries <a.kupries at westend.com>
		<http://www.purl.org/NET/akupries/>
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