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diff --git a/docs/implementation/vm.html b/docs/implementation/vm.html index 109416ff..1ecac46c 100644 --- a/docs/implementation/vm.html +++ b/docs/implementation/vm.html @@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ <link href="../style.css" rel="stylesheet"/> <title>The BQN virtual machine and runtime</title> </head> -<div class="nav"><a href="https://github.com/mlochbaum/BQN">BQN</a> / <a href="../index.html">main</a> / <a href="index.html">implementation</a></div> +<div class="nav">(<a href="https://github.com/mlochbaum/BQN">github</a>) / <a href="../index.html">BQN</a> / <a href="index.html">implementation</a></div> <h1 id="the-bqn-virtual-machine-and-runtime">The BQN virtual machine and runtime</h1> <p>BQN's self-hosted compiler and runtime mean that only a small amount of native code is needed to run BQN on any given platform. The <a href="https://github.com/mlochbaum/BQN/blob/master/implementation/../docs/bqn.js">Javascript environment</a> requires about 500 lines of Javascript code including system functions and performance improvements; probably around 250 would be required just to run the core language. This makes it fairly easy to port BQN to new platforms, allowing BQN to be <a href="../doc/embed.html">embedded</a> within other programming languages and interact with arrays or functions in those languages.</p> <p>The way data is represented is part of the VM implementation: it can use native arrays or a custom data structure, depending on what the language supports. An initial implementation will be very slow, but can be improved by replacing functions from the BQN-based runtime with native code. As the VM system can be hard to work with if you're not familiar with it, I advise you to contact me to discuss implementing a VM if you are interested.</p> |