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8896: [MUD-Dev] Re: DevMUD considerations and the Halloween article
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From: Marc Hernandez <marc@jb.com>
Newsgroups: nu.kanga.list.mud-dev
Date: Tue, 3 Nov 1998 22:14:32 -0800 (PST)
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Organization: Kanga.Nu
On Tue, 3 Nov 1998, Chris Gray wrote:
}[Jon Leonard:]
}
} >There are a few design decisions I'm aware of that have far-reaching impact
} >on the VM design. Some undecided ones that I'm aware of:
}
}Yep. Others might be issues with string handling (copy v.s. refcount or
}GC or something). Locking/unlocking of DB entries (automatic? manual?
}none?) Error reporting capabilities, traceback production, what level
}of run-time checking is done before byte-code is executed?
}
} >There's nothing keeping us from having alternate VMs, and these are possible
} >things that they might differ in. We should definitely decide on one model
} >to start with, though.
}
}Makes sense, unless we magically end up with a couple of alternates fairly
}early in the game. I'm not being entirely altruistic in wanting to get
}my stuff available early!
There are 2 versions of 'free' JVMs around (Kaffe and Japhar).
Just looking at Japhar (http://www.japhar.org) it is LGPL'd, which is
quite attractive.
Just because it is called the Java virtual machine doesnt mean
just java can compile to it. Soon I will have a 'Tiger' (little toy
language to teach comiler writing ML/Pascalish looking) compiler compiling
to it. There is an Ada compiler for the JVM. Although as a 'ground up'
alternative its not the best.
}Chris Gray cg@ami-cg.GraySage.Edmonton.AB.CA
Marc Hernandez marc@eisoftware.com
Programmer www.eisoftware.com