From: SASADA Koichi <ko1@...>
Date: 2004-09-29T01:43:21+09:00
Subject: Re: Any YARV pre-questions in RubyConf2004?

 James Britt <jamesUNDERBARb@neurogami.com>
 Tue, 28 Sep 2004 06:29:08 +0900 / Re: Any YARV pre-questions in RubyConf2004?

Hi,
Thank you for many replies! > ruby-talk rubyist


>Unless you've given this presentation before, time estimates can be hard 
>to get right.  You may end up running longer than you think.

I have done sometimes, but only once in English (that first speach is very poor :X)

>It seems to me that just the general idea of a VM would take a fair 
>amount of time to explain, particularly if  he VM is for a dynamic 
>language.  Anyway, here are some questions:

>Why bother?
>Where do you begin when designing a VM?
>What are the options?
>Are there some common VM architectures?
>Why not just target the Java or .Net (or compatible) VMs?
>How do you handle dynamic class changes (for example, adding a new 
>method to String at run time)?
>What are the really hard parts?
>What surprised you?

I'll talk about these.

Thanks,
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