thinking about virtual machines

Christopher J. Vogt vogt@novia.net
Sun, 27 Apr 1997 13:35:44 -0500


At 12:32 PM -0500 4/27/97, P. Srinivas wrote:
>>P. Srinivas,
>>Could you get references to these papers for us. Also how does one best
>>contact Per Bothner @ Cygnus to discuss the Scheme implementation on Java?
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>  Here is the reference:
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>	AI memo 1576, date unknown, 9 pages, available online as
>        ai-publications/1500-1999/AIM-1576.ps.Z
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>	    Supporting dynamic languages on the Java virtual machine
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>	By Olin Shivers
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>	In this note, I propose two extensions to the Java virtual machine
>        (or VM) to allow dynamic languages such as Dylan, Scheme and
>        Smalltalk to be efficiently implemented on the VM. These
>        extensions do not affect the performance of pure Java programs on
>        the machine. The first extension allows for efficient encoding
>        of dynamic data; the second allows for efficient encoding of
>        language-specific computational elements.
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>	Keywords: MIT, Java, Dynamic languages, virtual machines, data
>                 representations, microcode, extensible architecture,
>                 Dylan, Scheme, Smalltalk
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>    Here is the ftp address:
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>       ftp://publications.ai.mit.edu/ai-publications/1500-1999/AIM-1576.ps.Z
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>    In case anybody has trouble downloading, I can putup my copy for you.

This file doesn't seem to exist.  There is a AIM-1576.ps but it is 0 bytes.
There doesn't seem to be a copy of AIM-1576.ps.Z

Christopher (Chris) J. Vogt
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Omaha, NE
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