Re: Automatic porting with register-based VMs?

2002-01-04 Thread Dan Sugalski
At 11:10 PM 1/3/2002 -0500, Bryan C. Warnock wrote: The other obvious answer is that we don't, because it's just to difficult, if not impossible, to do, and do well. So is it worth the effort to pursue? FWIW, I've heard of at least one product out there that does this, though at the machine

Re: Automatic porting with register-based VMs?

2002-01-04 Thread Steve Fink
On Thu, Jan 03, 2002 at 11:10:56PM -0500, Bryan C. Warnock wrote: On Thursday 03 January 2002 08:40 pm, Paul Baranowski wrote: Hi - I love what you guys are doing with Parrot. I was just recently wondering if it would be possible to transform a program compiled down to machine language

Re: Automatic porting with register-based VMs?

2002-01-04 Thread Bryan C. Warnock
On Friday 04 January 2002 11:20 am, Dan Sugalski wrote: At 11:10 PM 1/3/2002 -0500, Bryan C. Warnock wrote: The other obvious answer is that we don't, because it's just to difficult, if not impossible, to do, and do well. So is it worth the effort to pursue? FWIW, I've heard of at least

Re: Automatic porting with register-based VMs?

2002-01-04 Thread Dan Sugalski
At 06:45 PM 1/4/2002 -0500, Bryan C. Warnock wrote: On Friday 04 January 2002 11:20 am, Dan Sugalski wrote: At 11:10 PM 1/3/2002 -0500, Bryan C. Warnock wrote: The other obvious answer is that we don't, because it's just to difficult, if not impossible, to do, and do well. So is it worth

Automatic porting with register-based VMs?

2002-01-03 Thread Paul Baranowski
Hi - I love what you guys are doing with Parrot. I was just recently wondering if it would be possible to transform a program compiled down to machine language into byte-code, thereby automatically porting any app to any other machine (at least any statically-compiled app). Does anyone see any

Re: Automatic porting with register-based VMs?

2002-01-03 Thread Bryan C. Warnock
On Thursday 03 January 2002 08:40 pm, Paul Baranowski wrote: Hi - I love what you guys are doing with Parrot. I was just recently wondering if it would be possible to transform a program compiled down to machine language into byte-code, thereby automatically porting any app to any other