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From: kwalker@cs.arizona.edu (Kenneth Walker)
Newsgroups: comp.compilers
Subject: Re: Choosing software VM instruction sets
Keywords: interpreter, design
Message-ID: <91-05-107@comp.compilers>
Date: 28 May 91 21:34:34 GMT
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In article <91-05-103@comp.compilers>, mabel!landers@uunet.uu.net writes:
> I'm interested in finding references about the design of instruction sets for
> software based virtual machines...

You might look at the book "The Implementation of the Icon Programming
Language" by Griswold and Griswold, Princeton University Press, 1986
(ISBN 0-691-08431-9). It describes the interpreter and run-time system
for Icon. The interpreter has been ported to many platforms. (Note that
compared to Icon, C is NOT a high level language.)

  Ken Walker / Computer Science Dept / Univ of Arizona / Tucson, AZ 85721
  +1 602 621-4252  kwalker@cs.arizona.edu {uunet|allegra|noao}!arizona!kwalker
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