I see your point and I suspected you spoke according to your experience. I am just trying to make people innovate, in my own way.
Another thing. Keeping the VM small will definitely help when moving to a different executing platform. It would be amazing to have the Pharo running on Javascript VM. Alexandre > Ok, I very much understand this point of view. That's exactly why I started > Pinocchio. > > I'm currently building my 4rd iteration. I started building a Smalltalk by > having AST evaluation (actually I started out with self-evaluating AST > objects that got evaluated by sending message... :D) . Then moved on to > stack-based bytecodes. Then moved on to registered-based bytecodes (where I > am now). All of my progress has been made by careful scrutinizing of the > problems at hand. I did reevaluate and question all steps; and I'm a bit sad > that I ended up doing it this way... But then I guess there is some > inevitability in it. > > For example the register-based bytecodes, I had no idea that what I was doing > were register-based bytecodes until I read the Lua VM description and noticed > that it was exactly the same. > > However I do think that I learned a lot by doing it. I made the trade-offs > myself and understand them a lot better than I did before. What I'm defending > in this discussion isn't based on estimates but experience from building it > from the ground up. > > And this is where I welcome everyone to do the same! It took me 2 years to > get to where I am now, but maybe it goes faster for you ;) It is definitely a > very worthwhile exercise. And I think because of it I'm finally at the point > where I can contribute something... > > cheers, > Toon > -- _,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;: Alexandre Bergel http://www.bergel.eu ^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;.
