Perl 6 and the Parrot Virtual Machine
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Parrot is a virtual machine designed to be a target for languages that have traditionally been run using an interpreter. The virtual machine and its assembly language include many high-level features such as objects, thread synchronization support, and garbage collection. It is set apart from other virtual machines by its register-machine structure, while many other contemporary VMs use a stack-based model. This paper provides an overview of the design of the Parrot virtual machine, the surrounding tools, the current development status and the relation to the Perl 6 language in particular, and dynamic languages in general.
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تاریخ انتشار 2005