The VM Goals -Reply

[Tom Thornhill]

John Wood wrote:
> The VM I have been discussing features configurable parsing which is flexible
> enough to directly map JVM bytecode onto the optimisation table - in fact, JVM
> bytecode would actually be a set of (contexted) references to the Java
> optimisation table (OT).

What's an OT?

> 
> One more interesting thing I did not mention - if you deliberately reduce an
> OT reference ignoring the native implementation, you can then reverse engineer
> the resultant code into an OT of a *different* language, and translate one
> language to another quite effectively. Of course, if the languages orientated
> around two diverse models - then the translation would be ineffective.  It
> does help, however, to make the distinctions of one language to another (where
> the differences orientate more around symantics than architecture) less of an
> issue.

Eh ?

> 
> John

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