[virtmach] Is this thing still on?

[Reuben Thomas]

> Does anyone know of any good documentation on building a VM largely in
> your intermediate form (bytecode, AST)?  I've identified many potential 
> places

I don't know how closely it corresponds to your needs, but Forth systems
go to some effort to minimise the number of hand-written primitives, and
are quite VM-like. You could look at maf & paf (model ANS Forth systems
with near-minimal primitives): see

ftp://taygeta.com/pub/Forth/ANS/{maf1v02.zip,paf0v04.zip,mpafread.me}

(the version numbers have probably changed by now).

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