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From:
Dan Sugalski
Date:
December 6, 2001 09:55
Subject:
Re: Parrot FAQ
Message ID:
5.1.0.14.2.20011206125400.01fb7e80@pop.sidhe.org
At 10:15 AM 12/6/2001 +0000, Leon Brocard wrote:
>Dan Sugalski sent the following bits through the ether:
>
> > The Zork interpreter might be stack based, thinking about it, but it was
> > hardly geared for speed, so I don't know that it'd count if it was.
>
>For what it is worth, in my quest for learning more about VMs I've
>taken a detailed look at the Z-machine with an eye to converting
>between Z-code and Parrot. I gave up 'cos it really wasn't designed
>for simplicity. It's all horrid and like a real-life machine, with
>lots of exceptions and lots of new ops in the later versions. I was
>looking for a quick hack, and that wasn't it ;-)

Not that I'm contemplating actually having parrot run z-code natively, 
but... is there anything in the Z machine that we might want to 
steal^Wreproduce?

					Dan

--------------------------------------"it's like this"-------------------
Dan Sugalski                          even samurai
dan@sidhe.org                         have teddy bears and even
                                      teddy bears get drunk


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