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Dear UFicle, a question about virtual machines... | by etwas_egal | 2007-01-25 01:03:03 |
| Oh, I see what you meant. :-) |
by bwkaz |
2007-01-25 04:11:26 |
You meant a JITted VM-using language, where the compiler's output can't be run directly on the CPU. Instead the compiler writes out a file that the runtime modifies between the disk and the CPU, to run on the real CPU. It does this "just in time" for it to actually run. The VM term threw me off; I thought you were talking about Xen or VMware or Virtual PC for a minute.
OK. Let's see, other languages that do that that I know of:
Lisp: I *think* Common Lisp defines a specific set of VM instructions, but it may not. I know GNU clisp uses *some* type of VM. Lisp seems to have used that type of setup for quite a few years, and I'm not quite sure, but they may have been the first popular language to do so. It's probably not suited for embedded work, but if you could make it fit, it'd be great to program with.
Python: I'm not quite sure that this one uses a VM at all, since you can extend it in C. But for some reason I think it does. Same thing with embedded; it's probably not very well suited for that, but if you can get it to fit, it'd be great. |
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Lisp - some compile to a VM language, | by Talchas | 2007-01-25 05:25:32 |
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I like LISP, but due to its popularity I question | by etwas_egal | 2007-01-25 13:24:52 |
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If you stick to Common Lisp, then "probably". | by bwkaz | 2007-01-25 15:42:27 |
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