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The term "virtual machine" is already pretty overloaded. This isn't referring to virtualized hardware in the VMWare sense or a language/platform virtual machine
by silentbicycle 14y ago
The term "virtual machine" is already pretty overloaded. This isn't referring to virtualized hardware in the VMWare sense or a language/platform virtual machine in the JVM sense. Rather, it's talking about how C's abstraction of the hardware has the Von Neumann bottleneck baked into it, so it clashes with fundamentally different architectures like the Burroughs 5000's.