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Yet all this time i have been running circles around this mother of a problem, because
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(after all) it is a BIG one. It must be the one single most important reason why dynamic
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languages are interpreted and not compiled.
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%h2#a-brief-recap A brief recap
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%p
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Last year already i started on a rewrite. After hitting this exact same wall for the fourth
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and off course i’ll update the architecture soon. But in case you didn’t click, here is the
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very very short summary:
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%ul
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%li
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%p
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Vool is a Virtual Object Oriented Language. Virtual in that is has no own syntax. But
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%li Vool is a Virtual Object Oriented Language.
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Virtual in that is has no own syntax. But
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it has semantics, and those are substantially simpler than ruby. Vool is Ruby without
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the fluff.
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%li
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%p
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Mom, the Minimal Object Machine layer is the first machine layer. Mom has no concept of memory
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%li Mom, the Minimal Object Machine layer is the first machine layer.
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Mom has no concept of memory
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yet, only objects. Data is transferred directly from object
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to object with one of Mom’s main instructions, the SlotLoad.
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%li
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%p
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Risc layer here abstracts the Arm in a minimal and independent way. It does not model
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%li Risc layer here abstracts the Arm in a minimal and independent way.
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It does not model
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any real RISC cpu instruction set, but rather implements what is needed for rubyx.
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%li
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%p
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%li Arm and Elf:
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There is a minimal
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%em Arm
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translator that transforms Risc instructions to Arm instructions.
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%em Elf
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implementation is
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able to create executable binaries from the assembled code and Parfait objects.
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%li
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%p
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Parfait: Generating code (by descending above layers) is only half the story in an oo system.
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%li Parfait:
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Generating code (by descending above layers) is only half the story in an oo system.
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The other half is classes, types, constant objects and a minimal run-time. This is
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what is Parfait is.
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%h2#compiling-and-building Compiling and building
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%h2#the-proof The proof
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%p
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Previous, static, Hello Worlds looked like this:
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\> “Hello world”.putstring
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%blockquote
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“Hello world”.putstring
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%p
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Off course we can know the type that putstring applies to and so this does not
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involve any method resolution at runtime, only at compile time.
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%p
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Todays step is thus:
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\> a = “Hello World”
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%blockquote
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%p a.putstring
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a = “Hello World”
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%br
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a.putstring
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%p
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This does involve a run-time lookup of the
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%em putstring
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it is indeed found and called.(1) Hurray.
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%p
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And maths works too:
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\> a = 150
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%blockquote
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%p a.div10
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a = 150
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%br
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a.div10
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%p
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Does indeed result in 15. Even with the
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Does indeed result in 15. Also most operator (+,- <<) work. Even with the
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%em new
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integers. Part of the rewrite was to upgrade
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integers to first class objects.
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integers. Part of the rewrite was to upgrade integers to first class objects.
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%p
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PS(1): I know with more analysis the compiler
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%em could
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%p
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After finishing the code, now i updated all the docs too!
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After
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=link_to "finishing the code," , "/blog/a-dynamic-hello-world"
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i updated all the docs too!
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%h2 The rewrite
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%p
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