Re: paper on implementation

[David Olofson <david@...>]

On Wednesday 23 February 2005 22.27, Luiz Henrique de Figueiredo 
wrote:
> For those interested in the internals of Lua, a paper on the
> implementation of Lua 5.0 is now available at
>  http://www.tecgraf.puc-rio.br/~lhf/ftp/doc/sblp2005.pdf
> 
> This paper has been submitted to the IX Brazilian Symposium on
> Programming Languages.
> 
> Enjoy. Comments welcome.

Very interesting read!

Now I feel a lot better about starting out with a register based VM 
and a hand coded parser for EEL, despite all the extra work. ;-)

(Ok, I wasn't plain guessing when I made those decisions, but most 
papers I've seen on stack vs register based VMs and the like are 
mostly theoretical, or based on prototype/proof-of-concept 
implementations. I've relied mostly on my own general programming 
experience and common sense for the details.)


//David Olofson - Programmer, Composer, Open Source Advocate

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