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[OT] Blog sequence "Journey through the VM"

Mariano Martinez Peck
 
Hi folks. I will start a sequence of VM related posts called “Journey through the VM”,  similar to what Igor did in Deep Smalltalk School. My main focus is that a regular Smalltalker, without any knowledge in VM stuff can understand the basis of it (ObjectMemory, Interpreter, etc). In addition, I expect the reader can download, change, compile,  run, and debug (and why not fixing?) the VM.

Later on in the journey, I would also like to talk about what the compiler does, what bytecodes are, how to read them, how they are mapped to the VM, etc. I will also show some hooks or tricks that the VM provides and that are not always known. Moreover, I will explain what a primitive is, how they are executed by the VM, how you can write your own primitives, etc. FFI and writing your own plugin are also in my plans.

It is important to notice that all these posts are thought for VM newbies. I would appreciate if there can be some VM hackers paying attention that I don't say stupid things.

http://marianopeck.wordpress.com/

Cheers


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Re: [OT] Blog sequence "Journey through the VM"

David T. Lewis
 
Great! Thanks for doing this and I'm looking forward to reading more
of your blog posts.

Dave

On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 10:28:40PM +0200, Mariano Martinez Peck wrote:

>  
> Hi folks. I will start a sequence of VM related posts called ?Journey
> through the VM?,  similar to what Igor did in Deep Smalltalk
> School<http://www.inria.fr/centre-de-recherche-inria/lille-nord-europe/agenda/smalltalk>.
> My main focus is that a regular Smalltalker, without any knowledge in VM
> stuff can understand the basis of it (ObjectMemory, Interpreter, etc). In
> addition, I expect the reader can download, change, compile,  run, and debug
> (and why not fixing?) the VM.
>
> Later on in the journey, I would also like to talk about what the compiler
> does, what bytecodes are, how to read them, how they are mapped to the VM,
> etc. I will also show some hooks or tricks that the VM provides and that are
> not always known. Moreover, I will explain what a primitive is, how they are
> executed by the VM, how you can write your own primitives, etc. FFI and
> writing your own plugin are also in my plans.
>
> It is important to notice that all these posts are thought for VM newbies. I
> would appreciate if there can be some VM hackers paying attention that I
> don't say stupid things.
>
> http://marianopeck.wordpress.com/
>
> Cheers

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Re: [OT] Blog sequence "Journey through the VM"

Casey Ransberger-2

This isn't off topic at all! Thank you for documenting your journey.

On Mar 31, 2011, at 4:31 PM, "David T. Lewis" <[hidden email]> wrote:

>
> Great! Thanks for doing this and I'm looking forward to reading more
> of your blog posts.
>
> Dave
>
> On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 10:28:40PM +0200, Mariano Martinez Peck wrote:
>>
>> Hi folks. I will start a sequence of VM related posts called ?Journey
>> through the VM?,  similar to what Igor did in Deep Smalltalk
>> School<http://www.inria.fr/centre-de-recherche-inria/lille-nord-europe/agenda/smalltalk>.
>> My main focus is that a regular Smalltalker, without any knowledge in VM
>> stuff can understand the basis of it (ObjectMemory, Interpreter, etc). In
>> addition, I expect the reader can download, change, compile,  run, and debug
>> (and why not fixing?) the VM.
>>
>> Later on in the journey, I would also like to talk about what the compiler
>> does, what bytecodes are, how to read them, how they are mapped to the VM,
>> etc. I will also show some hooks or tricks that the VM provides and that are
>> not always known. Moreover, I will explain what a primitive is, how they are
>> executed by the VM, how you can write your own primitives, etc. FFI and
>> writing your own plugin are also in my plans.
>>
>> It is important to notice that all these posts are thought for VM newbies. I
>> would appreciate if there can be some VM hackers paying attention that I
>> don't say stupid things.
>>
>> http://marianopeck.wordpress.com/
>>
>> Cheers
>
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Re: [OT] Blog sequence "Journey through the VM"

Igor Stasenko

On 1 April 2011 19:22, Casey Ransberger <[hidden email]> wrote:
>
> This isn't off topic at all! Thank you for documenting your journey.

Yes, Mariano. Spread the knowledge and unveil the mystery! :)

>
> On Mar 31, 2011, at 4:31 PM, "David T. Lewis" <[hidden email]> wrote:
>
>>
>> Great! Thanks for doing this and I'm looking forward to reading more
>> of your blog posts.
>>
>> Dave
>>
>> On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 10:28:40PM +0200, Mariano Martinez Peck wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi folks. I will start a sequence of VM related posts called ?Journey
>>> through the VM?,  similar to what Igor did in Deep Smalltalk
>>> School<http://www.inria.fr/centre-de-recherche-inria/lille-nord-europe/agenda/smalltalk>.
>>> My main focus is that a regular Smalltalker, without any knowledge in VM
>>> stuff can understand the basis of it (ObjectMemory, Interpreter, etc). In
>>> addition, I expect the reader can download, change, compile,  run, and debug
>>> (and why not fixing?) the VM.
>>>
>>> Later on in the journey, I would also like to talk about what the compiler
>>> does, what bytecodes are, how to read them, how they are mapped to the VM,
>>> etc. I will also show some hooks or tricks that the VM provides and that are
>>> not always known. Moreover, I will explain what a primitive is, how they are
>>> executed by the VM, how you can write your own primitives, etc. FFI and
>>> writing your own plugin are also in my plans.
>>>
>>> It is important to notice that all these posts are thought for VM newbies. I
>>> would appreciate if there can be some VM hackers paying attention that I
>>> don't say stupid things.
>>>
>>> http://marianopeck.wordpress.com/
>>>
>>> Cheers
>>
>



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Best regards,
Igor Stasenko AKA sig.
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Re: [OT] Blog sequence "Journey through the VM"

Mariano Martinez Peck
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Thanks everybody for the nice welcome and words. The journey has already its departure:

http://marianopeck.wordpress.com/2011/04/02/departure-vm-introduction/

I won't bother anymore in the mailing lists...so if you want to follow, check the website or use rss/mail notification.

Cheers

Mariano

On Fri, Apr 1, 2011 at 1:31 AM, David T. Lewis <[hidden email]> wrote:

Great! Thanks for doing this and I'm looking forward to reading more
of your blog posts.

Dave

On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 10:28:40PM +0200, Mariano Martinez Peck wrote:
>
> Hi folks. I will start a sequence of VM related posts called ?Journey
> through the VM?,  similar to what Igor did in Deep Smalltalk
> School<http://www.inria.fr/centre-de-recherche-inria/lille-nord-europe/agenda/smalltalk>.
> My main focus is that a regular Smalltalker, without any knowledge in VM
> stuff can understand the basis of it (ObjectMemory, Interpreter, etc). In
> addition, I expect the reader can download, change, compile,  run, and debug
> (and why not fixing?) the VM.
>
> Later on in the journey, I would also like to talk about what the compiler
> does, what bytecodes are, how to read them, how they are mapped to the VM,
> etc. I will also show some hooks or tricks that the VM provides and that are
> not always known. Moreover, I will explain what a primitive is, how they are
> executed by the VM, how you can write your own primitives, etc. FFI and
> writing your own plugin are also in my plans.
>
> It is important to notice that all these posts are thought for VM newbies. I
> would appreciate if there can be some VM hackers paying attention that I
> don't say stupid things.
>
> http://marianopeck.wordpress.com/
>
> Cheers