a virtual machine

[Bill House]

The AgentBase VM uses 32-bit instructions, organized as quads:

	CMD	ARG1	ARG2	TARGET

This approach improves performacen significantly over the JVM
and also allows runtime translation of VM instructions directly
to native code for many modern chips (something we're building
for Intel right now).  If the lispOS VM adopted our instruction
set (or at least the general scheme), then we could explore the
possibility of lispOS binary portability to Win32, etc.

Bill House
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