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
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