MoarVM: A virtual machine for NQP and Rakudo

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by kbenson • 13 years ago

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masak• 13 years ago

I just wrote a post about MoarVM, too: http://strangelyconsistent.org/blog/a-vm-for-6model . Slightly more slanted towards how this fits into the evolution of Perl 6 implementations.

disinterest5• 13 years ago

Wow, they are really good at starting things.

patrickas3• 13 years ago

Right... start things... keep evolving them and getting better... and hopefully never end.

I think that's the plan.

disinterest5• 13 years ago

Never end? More like never deliver.

jedharris5• 13 years ago

Regarding "What achievement can Perl 6 claim?"

At least one is 6Model itself -- a generic object semantics and API which has been back ported to Perl 5, has been ported to the JVM (with a lot of optimization still pending) and as we see here is a reasonable design for part of a VM API.

As far as I know 6Model is the only candidate around for a low level object model that is flexible enough to implement the object semantics in most languages, low level enough to be be efficiently implemented in most VMs, etc.

jedharris5• 13 years ago

If anyone is curious look at https://github.com/jnthn/6model/blob/master/overview.pod

There may be more comprehensive / current documentation out there but I don't know where.

chromatic4• 13 years ago

a generic object semantics and API which has been back ported to Perl 5

Do you mean Moose or the abandoned Perl 5 MOP experiment?

jedharris5• 13 years ago

Both, I guess, though claiming Moose is better PR.

jedharris5• 13 years ago

I don't know enough history here. The current Moose docs say "Moose is built on top of Class::MOP" so maybe there was a different MOP effort that succeeded? That MOP is probably closer to 6Model than Moose itself.

MoarVM: A virtual machine for NQP and Rakudo

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