[virtmach] Your VM

[Barry Watson]

You could go on forever cause distinctions like these are based on gut
feeling. There all just mappings between language and meaning. In this case
it would be best to experiment to see what was best for the application.


-----Original Message-----
From: Michal Gajda <korek@icm.edu.pl>
To: virtmach@iecc.com <virtmach@iecc.com>
Date: den 28 maj 2001 11:55
Subject: Re: [virtmach] Your VM


>On Mon, 28 May 2001, [iso-8859-1] Mickaël Pointier wrote:
>
>> > So, why do you think VM with it's own code was a better implementation
>> > option for Creatures than say interpreter, or encoding behaviour of
your
>> > objects over some domain-specific library? ;-)
>>
>> What is the difference between a VM and an interpreter ? For me a VM
>> is a "byte code interpreter", so I do not understand the distinction.
>
>By interpreter I meant "direct interpreter for high-level language".
>Usually I don't consider writting bytecode directly(am I the only one?),
>so for bytecode interpreter you have(to be read w/fixed width font):
>
>                         compiler              bytecode
>high-level language ----------> bytecode -------------> [program
>(maybe domain-specific)                       interpreter    results and
>                                                             effects]
>Instead of:
>                       direct
>high-level language -------------> [program results and effects]
>                     interpreter
>
>Thus you avoid for example reanalyzing code syntax each time
>and possibly checking it's static correctness.
>
> Greetings :-)
> Michal Gajda
> korek@icm.edu.pl
> *knowledge-hungry student*
>