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From: kentb@tekchips.UUCP (Kent Beck)
Newsgroups: net.lang.prolog
Subject: Wanted: info on implementations of D.H.D. Warren's Prolog machine
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Date: Tue, 2-Apr-85 17:37:35 EST
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I have been reading D.H.D. Warren's SRI report, "An Abstract Prolog
Instruction Set," and I have a few questions about implementing a bytecode
emulator for it.

  1. How difficult is it to write such a beast in, say, C for a Vax or
     68000?

  2. What kind of performance can be expected from such an implementation?

  3. Are there any such emulators in the public domain, or at least that
     I could look at?

Thanks in advance.

Kent Beck
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