Re: Lua Virtual Machine Implementation

[Ico Doornekamp <lua@...>]

Hi Alex,

* On 2009-10-15 Alex de Magalhães <alexdemagalhaes@gmail.com> wrote  :

> I am an undergraduate student and on the course of Dedicated Operating
> Systems I must choose a theme for a implementation project in system
> software. I chose to research and implement some changes to the Lua virtual
> machine.
> 
> Thus, I would like to know what papers, or books, or tutorials you recommend
> me to read, and if there are documents describing the implementation of the
> virtual machine so I can study it. I downloaded the Lua source code, I saw
> the files related to LVM, but there's not MUCH documentation in the code,
> and everything I know about its functionality is what I read in articles
> about it.

The first thing that comes to mind would be 'The implementation of Lua
5.0', which can be found at http://www.lua.org/doc/jucs05.pdf.

Do you plan to publish the results of your research after you're done ?


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