Visual Introduction to Parrot Virtual Machine
By Duke Leto
Date: Wednesday, 29 June 2011 10:00
Duration: 50 minutes
Target audience: Beginner
Language:
Tags: parrot virtualmachine vm
You can find more information on the speaker's site:
- Talk: https://github.com/leto/presentations/blob/master/2011/YAPCNA/visual_intro_parrot/pres.pdf?raw=true
Parrot Virtual Machine is a seemingly-complex piece of software that dedicated
hackers have been working on for over ten years. It currently has mature
implementations of Perl 6 and Lua, and many dozens of in-progress
implementations for every language under the sun.
Because Parrot development moves fast, the documentation for any given
subsystem is sometimes lagging. It can be hard for a newcomer to understand how
all the pieces fit together.
I propose to fix this problem by providing a "Visual Introduction" to Parrot,
which will focus on information-dense pictures that show how the different
parts of Parrot fit together.
The first half of the talk will focus on what the building blocks of Parrot
are, and how they fit together, while the second half of the talk will
concentrate on how languages built on Parrot (known as High Level Languages or
HLLs) interact with the virtual machine.
Attendees of this talk will leave with a valuable understanding of how Parrot
and HLLs on Parrot work that will be useful for years to come, instead of being
told a bunch of details that will be quickly obsoleted.
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- Jon Gentle (atrodo)
- Brock Wilcox (awwaiid)
- Todd Olson
- Ed Deloye
- jerry gay (particle)
- Kevin Polulak (soh_cah_toa)
- Robert Threet (RAT)
- Kevin Shaum
- Lawrence Hixson (Larry)
- James E Keenan (kid51)
- Solomon Foster (colomon)
- G. Wade Johnson (gwadej)
- Matt Nash (mnb)
- Christoph Otto (cotto)
- Brian Gernhardt (benabik)
- James Engel (Jim)
- Bruce Gray (Util)
- Paul Driver (frodwith)
- Michelle Byrd (Seraphina)
- Marcus Del Greco
- John Lightsey (J.D.)
- Tim Elkins
- Mike Burns (lungching)
- Reini Urban (rurban)
