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Virtual Machines

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  • © 2006

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Authors:
  1. Iain D. Craig
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  • First book to provide information on how to build virtual machines for sequential, object-oriented and parallel languages
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xv
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  2. Introduction

    Pages 1-10

  3. VMs for Portability: BCPL

    Pages 11-26

  4. The Java Virtual Machine

    Pages 27-59

  5. DIY VMs

    Pages 61-108

  6. More Stack-Based VMs

    Pages 109-130

  7. Case Study: An Event-Driven Language

    Pages 131-155

  8. Register-Based Machines

    Pages 157-200

  9. Implementation Techniques

    Pages 201-214

  10. Open Issues

    Pages 215-231

  11. Back Matter

    Pages 233-269
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About this book

I love virtual machines (VMs) and I have done for a long time.If that makes me "sad" or an "anorak", so be it. I love them because they are so much fun, as well as being so useful. They have an element of original sin (writing assembly programs and being in control of an entire machine), while still being able to claim that one is being a respectable member of the community (being structured, modular, high-level, object-oriented, and so on). They also allow one to design machines of one's own, unencumbered by the restrictions of a starts optimising it for some physical particular processor (at least, until one processor or other). I have been building virtual machines, on and off, since 1980 or there­ abouts. It has always been something of a hobby for me; it has also turned out to be a technique of great power and applicability. I hope to continue working on them, perhaps on some of the ideas outlined in the last chapter (I certainly want to do some more work with register-based VMs and concur­ rency). I originally wanted to write the book from a purely semantic viewpoint.

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"The author offers a unique insight into the building of virtual machines (VMs) for sequential, object-oriented and parallel languages, and uses comparisons of different VMs to provide practical examples on how to build VMs." (Stefan Meyer, Zentralblatt MATH, Vol. 1092 (18), 2006)

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