Building an Interpreter with Vmgen

Vmgen automates many of the tasks of writing the virtual machine part of an interpreter, resulting in less coding, debugging and maintenance e ort. This paper gives some quantitative data about the source code and generated code for a vmgen-based interpreter, and gives some examples demonstrating the simplicity of using vmgen.

• Type: Journal
• Year: 2002
• Where: CC
• Authors: M. Anton Ertl, David Gregg
• Keywords: CC 2002, Interpreter, Quantitative Data, System Software, Virtual Machine