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The term virtual machine stands in distinction to real machine, so unless a hardware interpreter for python (perhaps interpreting preprocessed bytecode), I woul
by posterboy 9y ago
The term virtual machine stands in distinction to real machine, so unless a hardware interpreter for python (perhaps interpreting preprocessed bytecode), I wouldn't prefer to make the distinction, although, technically, there are unrelated bare to the bones interpreters in the contrast (edit: as is the case with the featuredvarticle, the author points out in this thread).
- naasking 9y ago> The term virtual machine stands in distinction to real machine Right: virtual machine = software implementation of what could be a real machine. The simplest interpreters execute directly from the AST, but if there's a pass that reduces this to an abstract machine with an ISA, I think it's fair to classify that as a VM.