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I find these kinds of very basic intro articles frustrating.

I find these kinds of very basic intro articles frustrating. They till the same ground over and over: a tiny instruction set implemented with a switch statement. None of the more difficult issues are addressed: exception handling, linking to libraries or other programs written for the same VM, portability of programs across architectures, accessing the OS for services like file I/O, time, etc.-- All the things that make a toy not a toy. Every CS student in the world has written a toy VM just like this one.

Posted by ternaryoperator on May 9, 2015, 9:24 PM

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I find these kinds of very basic intro articles frustrating.

ternaryoperatorMay 9, 2015, 9:24 PM

I find these kinds of very basic intro articles frustrating. They till the same ground over and over: a tiny instruction set implemented with a switch statement. None of the more difficult issues are addressed: exception handling, linking to libraries or other programs written for the same VM, portability of programs across architectures, accessing the OS for services like file I/O, time, etc.-- All the things that make a toy not a toy. Every CS student in the world has written a toy VM just like this one.

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