From: "Melvin Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> At 06:30 PM 11/13/2003 +0100, Stéphane Payrard wrote: >>Disclaimer: Pardon my French :) >> >>I have bought "Virtual Machine Design and Implementation in C++" >>by Bill Blunden. This book has very positive reviews (see >>slashdot or amazon.com). It seems to impress people by the >>apparent width of covered topics. Most of it is off topic. The >>book gives to the moderately knowledgeable reader no insight >>about virtual machines or even about language compilation. > >Stef, > >Thanks for the review. Yours is the 2nd review I've read about this >book. I was about to buy it but after the 1st review I changed my >mind as it echoed your review in almost every sense. > >I did browse it at the bookstore and it seemed >that the book tackled no real topics/problems associated with >modern VM design. Disappointing.
Any chance anyone could recommend a good book about VM design and implementation? Perferably one that covers some stuff that's relevant to Parrot. Thanks, Jonathan
