Toward Virtual Machine Adaption Rather than Reimplementation
Sprache des Titels:
Englisch
Original Buchtitel:
MoreVMs 2017
Original Kurzfassung:
We adapt SOMns, a Truffle-based interpreter for Newspeak,
to the Grace programming language. We highlight differ-
ences between the semantics of these languages and offer
preliminary results showing that adaption is possible while
retaining performance. The similarities between the lan-
guages promote the potential for adaption and code shar-
ing between implementations. Through experimentation
we intend to explore how the design of the tailored imple-
mentation; the flexibility of the underlying framework; and
similarities between languages affect adaptability, and by
doing so hope to realize a set of mechanisms that can be
easily extended to create optimized virtual machines for
object-orientated languages.
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