Changes between Version 14 and Version 15 of LoritoDesignQuestions
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v14 v15 5 5 At its lowest level a small set of primitives which could form the basis of a virtual machine to run code written in C without having to follow such features of C as its calling conventions and memory management. 6 6 7 Put another way, what if we had a small and fast virtual machine w hich supported CPS, multiple dispatch, PMCs, and garbage collection but gave us control over memory layout and let us compose more ops from a handful of simple ops?7 Put another way, what if we had a small and fast virtual machine with a handful of simple ops and native garbage collection? What if we could build the rest of Parrot in a language which supports CPS, multiple dispatch, and PCC natively? 8 8 9 9 === What are the main goals that Lorito should accomplish? ===