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Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2006 18:45:19 +0000
From: "Zoltan Jarai" <zoltan.jarai@gmail.com>
To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
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Subject: [9fans] Re: Intermediate Language
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On 7/19/06, Darren Bane <darren.bane@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 19/07/06, Vladimir Giszpenc <vgiszpenc@dsci-usa.com> wrote:
>
> !snip!
>
> > Why not have an intermediate language similar to MSIL but more suited to
> > your OS?
>
> There is such a beast if you want it (not everyone does).  Inferno (
> http://www.vitanuova.com/inferno/index.html ) runs programs for the
> Dis virtual machine (
> http://www.vitanuova.com/inferno/papers/hotchips.html ).
>
> !snip!
>
> > If
> > someone could either explain or refer me to an explanation of the
> > register versus stack based language problem as it applies to an
> > intermediate language, I would very much appreciate it.
>
> This is very well described in the hotchips paper above.
> --
> Darren Bane
>