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| From | cross@spitfire.i.gajendra.net (Dan Cross) |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | comp.unix.shell, comp.unix.programmer, comp.lang.misc |
| Subject | Re: Command Languages Versus Programming Languages |
| Date | 2024-10-13 20:29 +0000 |
| Organization | PANIX Public Access Internet and UNIX, NYC |
| Message-ID | <vehajq$fl2$2@reader1.panix.com> (permalink) |
| References | <uu54la$3su5b$6@dont-email.me> <QnROO.226037$EEm7.111715@fx16.iad> <vegqbe$he8$1@reader1.panix.com> <vegs0o$nh5t$1@dont-email.me> |
Cross-posted to 3 groups.
In article <vegs0o$nh5t$1@dont-email.me>, Bart <bc@freeuk.com> wrote: >On 13/10/2024 16:52, Dan Cross wrote: >> In article <QnROO.226037$EEm7.111715@fx16.iad>, >> Scott Lurndal <slp53@pacbell.net> wrote: >>> cross@spitfire.i.gajendra.net (Dan Cross) writes: >>>> In article <vefvo0$k1mm$1@dont-email.me>, <Muttley@DastartdlyHQ.org> wrote: >>> >>>>> Really? So java bytecode will run direct on x86 or ARM will it? Please give >>>>> some links to this astounding discovery you've made. >>>> >>>> Um, ok. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jazelle >>> >>> There was also a company a couple of decades ago that >>> built an entire processor designed to execute bytecode >>> directly - with a coprocessor to handle I/O. >>> >>> IIRC, it was Azul. There were a number of others, including >>> Sun. >>> >>> None of them panned out - JIT's ended up winning that battle. >>> >>> Even ARM no longer includes Jazelle extensions in any of their >>> mainstream processors. >> >> Sure. But the fact that any of these were going concerns is an >> existence proof that one _can_ take bytecodes targetted toward a >> "virtual" machine and execute it on silicon, >> making the >> distinction a lot more fluid than might be naively assumed, in >> turn exposing the silliness of this argument that centers around >> this weirdly overly-rigid definition of what a "compiler" is. > >I've implemented numerous compilers and interpreters over the last few >decades (and have dabbled in emulators). > >To me the distinctions are clear enough because I have to work at the >sharp end! > >I'm not sure why people want to try and be clever by blurring the roles >of compiler and interpreter; that's not helpful at all. I'm not saying the two are the same; what I'm saying is that this arbitrary criteria that a compiler must emit a fully executable binary image is not just inadquate, but also wrong, as it renders separate compilation impossible. I am further saying that there are many different _types_ of compilers, including specialized tools that don't emit machine language. >Sure, people can write emulators for machine code, which are a kind of >interpreter, or they can implement bytecode in hardware; so what? That's exactly my point. >That doesn't really affect what I do. Writing compiler backends for >actual CPUs is hard work. Generating bytecode is a lot simpler. That really depends on the bytecode, doesn't it? The JVM is a complex beast; MIPS or the unprivileged integer subset of RISC-V are pretty simple in comparison. >(Especially in my case as I've devised myself, another distinction. >Compilers usually target someone else's instruction set.) > >If you want one more distinction, it is this: with my compiler, the >resultant binary is executed by a separate agency: the CPU. Or maybe the >OS loader will run it through an emulator. Python has a mode by which it will emit bytecode _files_, which can be separately loaded and interpreted; it even has an optimizing mode. Is that substantially different? >With my interpreter, then *I* have to write the dispatch routines and >write code to implement all the instructions. Again, I don't think that anyone disputes that interpreters exist. But insisting that they must take a particular shape is just wrong. >(My compilers generate an intermediate language, a kind of VM, which is >then processed further into native code. Then by the definition of this psuedonyminous guy I've been responding to, your compiler is not a "proper compiler", no? >But I have also tried interpreting that VM; it just runs 20 times slower >than native code. That's what interpreting usually means: slow programs.) Not necessarily. The JVM does pretty good, quite honestly. - Dan C.
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Re: Command Languages Versus Programming Languages Sebastian <sebastian@here.com.invalid> - 2024-11-11 07:31 +0000
Re: Command Languages Versus Programming Languages Muttley@DastartdlyHQ.org - 2024-11-11 10:06 +0000
Re: Command Languages Versus Programming Languages Wolfgang Agnes <wagnes@jemoni.to> - 2024-11-11 08:28 -0300
Re: Command Languages Versus Programming Languages Muttley@dastardlyhq.com - 2024-11-11 16:21 +0000
Re: Command Languages Versus Programming Languages Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2024-11-11 20:55 +0000
Re: Command Languages Versus Programming Languages Janis Papanagnou <janis_papanagnou+ng@hotmail.com> - 2024-11-12 10:14 +0100
Re: Command Languages Versus Programming Languages Muttley@DastartdlyHQ.org - 2024-11-12 09:21 +0000
Re: Command Languages Versus Programming Languages Janis Papanagnou <janis_papanagnou+ng@hotmail.com> - 2024-11-12 10:31 +0100
Re: Command Languages Versus Programming Languages Muttley@DastartdlyHQ.org - 2024-11-12 09:53 +0000
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Re: Command Languages Versus Programming Languages cross@spitfire.i.gajendra.net (Dan Cross) - 2024-11-22 17:18 +0000
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Re: Command Languages Versus Programming Languages cross@spitfire.i.gajendra.net (Dan Cross) - 2024-11-22 17:43 +0000
Re: Command Languages Versus Programming Languages cross@spitfire.i.gajendra.net (Dan Cross) - 2024-11-22 17:17 +0000
Re: Command Languages Versus Programming Languages Rainer Weikusat <rweikusat@talktalk.net> - 2024-11-22 17:48 +0000
Re: Command Languages Versus Programming Languages cross@spitfire.i.gajendra.net (Dan Cross) - 2024-11-22 18:12 +0000
Re: Command Languages Versus Programming Languages Rainer Weikusat <rweikusat@talktalk.net> - 2024-11-22 18:48 +0000
Re: Command Languages Versus Programming Languages cross@spitfire.i.gajendra.net (Dan Cross) - 2024-11-22 19:05 +0000
Re: Command Languages Versus Programming Languages Rainer Weikusat <rweikusat@talktalk.net> - 2024-11-22 19:24 +0000
Re: Command Languages Versus Programming Languages cross@spitfire.i.gajendra.net (Dan Cross) - 2024-11-22 19:46 +0000
Re: Command Languages Versus Programming Languages scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2024-11-22 18:14 +0000
Re: Command Languages Versus Programming Languages scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2024-11-22 18:22 +0000
Re: Command Languages Versus Programming Languages cross@spitfire.i.gajendra.net (Dan Cross) - 2024-11-22 18:30 +0000
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