JamVM sounds very interesting. A fast lightweight interpreter has at
least two attractions:
a) portability (this is true regardless of the implementation language,
the point is that an interpreter does not require a new compiler backend
to be written for each architecture)
b) compactness
If the lightweight interpreter were a pluggable component, or if we
could use JamVM as a prototype for a pluggable lightweight interpreter,
I think that would be a real asset.
Rob, what do you think? Could the JamVM interpreter be extracted as a
pluggable module? Could the JamVM interpreter be used as a protype for
a new componentized implementation (will your insights and lessons
translate well into a new implementation, or are they mostly
JamVM-specific?)
Is the GC exact or conservative?
In other words, how can Harmony make the most of JamVM's most valuable
ideas?
Cheers,
--Steve
