MiniVM: A zero-dependency cross-language runtime on par with LuaJIT and C

• paka

  4 158 0.0 C

  Paka language

  

I spent a bit of time digging around in the source code. It's really not well documented but here is some of what I've gathered: the best place to look is Paka repository which is a language made by the same developer that uses minivm as the backend. You can see there the fib.svm file is an example of human-readable syntax for the VM bytecode in assembly-style language. Paka also comes with a file called asm.paka that converts the human-readable syntax into binary bytecode for the minivm to take as input. Then, you can check out vm_run() in vm/vm.c in the minivm repo to see how the VM actually runs. It's essentially just a bunch of goto labels, and a heap-allocated stack. The VM has a jump table where the opcodes map to a goto label. Different opcodes have different numbers of arguments (e.g. ADD takes three arguments: where to store the result, the left argument, and the right argument), and some of the opcodes are relatively complex.

• minivm

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  A VM That is Dynamic and Fast

  

• InfluxDB

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