Parrot vs JVM

2001-11-12 Thread Alberto Manuel Brandao Simoes
Hello! I'm on the work of writting something about virtual machines and I would like to know if there is any report on differences between JVM and parrot... and if there is any web document about perl5 VM. Cheers Alberto -- f u cn rd ths, u cn gt a gd jb n

Re: Parrot vs JVM

2001-11-12 Thread Simon Cozens
On Mon, Nov 12, 2001 at 11:39:44AM +, Alberto Manuel Brandao Simoes wrote: I'm on the work of writting something about virtual machines and I would like to know if there is any report on differences between JVM and parrot... Sounds like a job for Leon. and if there is any web

Re: Parrot vs JVM

2001-11-12 Thread Alberto Manuel Brandao Simoes
On Mon, Nov 12, 2001 at 12:35:00PM +, Simon Cozens wrote: | On Mon, Nov 12, 2001 at 11:39:44AM +, Alberto Manuel Brandao Simoes wrote: | I'm on the work of writting something about virtual machines | and I would like to know if there is any report on differences | between JVM and

Re: Parrot vs JVM

2001-11-12 Thread Leon Brocard
Alberto Manuel Brandao Simoes sent the following bits through the ether: I'm on the work of writting something about virtual machines and I would like to know if there is any report on differences between JVM and parrot... and if there is any web document about perl5 VM. Righto, I've been

Re: Parrot vs JVM

2001-11-12 Thread Leon Brocard
Leon Brocard sent the following bits through the ether: o JVM is stack-based, Parrot is register-based (major difference!) I forgot to point out that details of the JVM are available at: http://java.sun.com/docs/books/vmspec/2nd-edition/html/VMSpecTOC.doc.html Leon -- Leon

Re: Parrot vs JVM

2001-11-12 Thread Andrew J Bromage
G'day all. On Mon, Nov 12, 2001 at 03:37:08PM +, Leon Brocard wrote: I forgot to point out that details of the JVM are available [...] I realise that this _is_ a major difference between Parrot and the JVM, but you don't need to rub it in. :-) Cheers, Andrew Bromage

Re: Parrot vs JVM

2001-11-12 Thread Dan Sugalski
At 02:44 AM 11/13/2001 +1100, Andrew J Bromage wrote: G'day all. On Mon, Nov 12, 2001 at 03:37:08PM +, Leon Brocard wrote: I forgot to point out that details of the JVM are available [...] I realise that this _is_ a major difference between Parrot and the JVM, but you don't need to rub