From: Dan Sugalski Date: 2002-05-03T22:11:33+09:00 Subject: Re: Ruby and Parrot At 2:52 PM +0900 5/3/02, Phil Tomson wrote: >In article , >Dan Sugalski wrote: > >At 2:40 AM +0900 5/3/02, Berger, Daniel wrote: > >>For an interested tidbit on Parrot & Java, look here: >>> >>>http://use.perl.org/~acme/journal/ >> >>This trick should also be usable with other bytecode languages--.NET, >>Rezrov, UCSD p-code, 6502 hex code... The possibilities are >>interestingly endless. > >..NET doesn't use a bytecode VM. It uses an IR (Intermediate >Representation) that gets compiled to native code. A difference that doesn't matter, really. It's essentially bytecode on disk, which is the important bit. (And it can be a VM if the implementers choose--that what you get with Mono, for example, when you don't enable the JIT) -- Dan --------------------------------------"it's like this"------------------- Dan Sugalski even samurai dan@sidhe.org have teddy bears and even teddy bears get drunk