On Oct 31, 2011, at 1:38 PM, Mike Samuel wrote: > 2011/10/31 Maxime Chevalier-Boisvert <maximechevali...@gmail.com>: >> Hello, >> I recently presented a paper about Tachyon, a research (meta-circular) >> JavaScript VM implementation at DLS 2011. Sam Tobin-Hochstadt suggested that >> I join this list and mention our effort, to get in touch with other JS >> implementers, and perhaps get some feedback/suggestions or contributions. >> Tachyon is a JavaScript VM written in (extended) JavaScript. It uses a pure >> JIT targetting x86/x86-64. We aim to eventually support the full ES5 spec. >> We have support for most of it, but we're still missing important features >> such as a GC, floating-point support and exceptions. Tachyon's development >> is funded in part by Mozilla. > > Could you explain how this differs from other meta-circular > interpreters like Narcissus? > Is it correct to say that this is not a tree-interpreter like > Narcissus, but a JavaScript to native compiler written in JS.
I was asking Mike privately why he asked about this, and he answered that the "meta-circular" term suggested to him that there's a Tachyon interpreter or tower of evaluators. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meta-circular_evaluator I'm not an expert on "meta-circular" terminology, just curious to learn. /be _______________________________________________ es-discuss mailing list es-discuss@mozilla.org https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/es-discuss
