Changes between Version 14 and Version 15 of LoritoDesignQuestions

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07/28/10 05:21:03 (11 years ago)
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chromatic
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cotto said "Wait, what supports what?"

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  • LoritoDesignQuestions

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    55At 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. 
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    7 Put another way, what if we had a small and fast virtual machine which 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? 
     7Put 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? 
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    99=== What are the main goals that Lorito should accomplish? ===