virtual machine Archive

After reading some more (mostly on the net, but also in books, especially Engineering a Compiler & Modern Compiler Implementation in ML) and wrapping my mind around the whole subject of the internal structure of compilers more and more in detail (especially regarding SSA), I started realizing

owlisp now has an internal SECD virtual machine and compiles expressions to byte-code that this VM understands (see README). I have implemented a VM because I think it might be a nice abstraction layer between the Lisp code and the resulting LLVM-IR and/or Parrot VM IR. It