Re: [dev] Re: Most suckless multi-language VM

2011-10-03 Thread Bjartur Thorlacius
I recommend porting Dis to jslinux.

Re: [dev] Re: Most suckless multi-language VM

2011-10-03 Thread Pierre Chapuis
On Mon, 3 Oct 2011 18:44:23 +0200, pancake wrote: http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_instruction_set_computer Nice, I didn't know that. As for what I was looking for I guess I will evaluate the possibilities to implement something else on top of some version of the Lua VM for now.

Re: [dev] Re: Most suckless multi-language VM

2011-10-03 Thread Connor Lane Smith
Hey, On 3 October 2011 18:38, pancake wrote: > Because there's nothing virtual in a real architecture. And emulating it is > just an emulation. Virtualization is not supported by mips. So.. You're right, MIPS isn't a VM, it's an ISA. But the Dis virtual machine is based upon the Dis ISA (a CISC

Re: [dev] Re: Most suckless multi-language VM

2011-10-03 Thread pancake
Nope. Virtualization != emulation != simulation != interpretation. Nevertheless when ppl talk about virtual machines they usually refer to pieces of software that implement machines that cannot be implemented by hardware because they provide high level opcodes and primitives. If you use gxemul

Re: [dev] Re: Most suckless multi-language VM

2011-10-03 Thread pancake
Because there's nothing virtual in a real architecture. And emulating it is just an emulation. Virtualization is not supported by mips. So.. On 03/10/2011, at 19:25, Christian Neukirchen wrote: > pancake writes: > >> Mips is not a vm. > > Why not? :P > > -- > Christian Neukirchenhttp:/

Re: [dev] Re: Most suckless multi-language VM

2011-10-03 Thread Bjartur Thorlacius
On Mon, Oct 3, 2011 at 5:38 PM, pancake wrote: Emulating is virtually executing...

[dev] Re: Most suckless multi-language VM

2011-10-03 Thread Christian Neukirchen
pancake writes: > Mips is not a vm. Why not? :P -- Christian Neukirchenhttp://chneukirchen.org

Re: [dev] Re: Most suckless multi-language VM

2011-10-03 Thread pancake
Mips is not a vm.. But talking about simple architectures... http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_instruction_set_computer On 03/10/2011, at 18:14, Christian Neukirchen wrote: > Pierre Chapuis writes: > >> I am wondering what the simplest multi-language VM is. > > MIPS. > > -- > Christian Ne

[dev] Re: Most suckless multi-language VM

2011-10-03 Thread Christian Neukirchen
Pierre Chapuis writes: > I am wondering what the simplest multi-language VM is. MIPS. -- Christian Neukirchenhttp://chneukirchen.org