Supporting Dynamic Languages on the Java Virtual Machine

In this note, I propose two extensions to the Java virtual machine (or VM) to allow dynamic languages such as Dylan, Scheme and Smalltalk to be efficiently implemented on the VM. These extensions do not affect the performance of pure Java programs on the machine. The first extension allows for effic...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Shivers, Olin
Language:en_US
Published: 2004
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/6665