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[debbugs-tracker] bug#24363: closed (Clarify the VM docs)


From: GNU bug Tracking System
Subject: [debbugs-tracker] bug#24363: closed (Clarify the VM docs)
Date: Wed, 01 Mar 2017 09:08:02 +0000

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regarding Clarify the VM docs
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--- Begin Message --- Subject: Clarify the VM docs Date: Sun, 4 Sep 2016 01:04:51 -0400
The docs currently state:

> The easiest (and most fun) way to depend on a virtual machine is to implement the virtual machine within Guile itself. This way the virtual machine provides what Scheme needs (tail calls, multiple values, call/cc) and can provide optimized inline instructions for Guile (cons, struct-ref, etc.).

This is a little confusing for new readers (like myself), who may consider Guile to by synonymous with Scheme.

This led to interpret this as 'the VM is implemented in Scheme', which has a bootstrapping problem (what actually interprets your bytecode?).

Instead, I propose adding an additional sentence:

> The easiest (and most fun) way to depend on a virtual machine is to
implement the virtual machine within Guile itself. Guile contains a
bytecode interpreter (written in C) and a Scheme to bytecode compiler
(written in Scheme). This way the virtual machine provides what Scheme
needs (tail calls, multiple values, @code{call/cc}) and can provide
optimized inline instructions for Guile (@code{cons}, @code{struct-ref},
etc.).

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--- Begin Message --- Subject: Re: bug#24363: Acknowledgement (Clarify the VM docs) Date: Wed, 01 Mar 2017 10:07:47 +0100 User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.1 (gnu/linux)
done


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