Phil Tomson wrote: > Some of the threads here recently which touch on the issue of virtual > machines have gotten me interested in the design of virtual machines and > bytecodes. Does anyone out there know of any books, web sites, etc which > cover the design of virtual machines (improving performance, design of > bytecodes, types [stack based vs. register based], etc)? There is a course on OO VM Design and Implementation, with slides and papers available for download at: http://www.daimi.au.dk/~larsbak/ I have not read it, though. I don't know if it's good, but it seems to cover lots of aspects. -- Pierre-Charles David (pcdavid <at> emn <dot> fr) DEA Informatique, ±Äole des Mines de Nantes, France