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If you want a VM that's totally geared towards "dynamic languages" you should definitely check out Parrot ( http://www.parrot.org/ http://www.parrot.org/ ).
by johnm 18y ago
If you want a VM that's totally geared towards "dynamic languages" you should definitely check out Parrot ( http://www.parrot.org/ http://www.parrot.org/ ).
- jerf 18y agoErlang isn't a dynamic language in the sense that Parrot is optimized for, either. Erlang-on-Parrot wouldn't be able to use any other libraries developed for the Parrot ecosystem as they would depend on mutable languages any better than it already can (it would still have to go through the Erlang ports), eliminating a major reason to go to a given VM, and the Parrot VM optimizes a lot of cases that Erlang doesn't care about while missing out on many it does. Erlang's data structures are not manifestly typed, but in most other ways it is a static language.