Clojure for the Erlang VM

Re:Clojure for the Erlang VM by kragen on Monday January 06, 2020 @02:35AM (#21967296)

Also LLVM, wasm, amd64, ARM, aarch64, RISC-V, Vulkan, Radeon, NVIDIA, Gen, and iCE40. Instruction sets are more exciting than they have been since the 1980s.

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Re:Clojure for the Erlang VM by dhash on Monday January 06, 2020 @02:57PM (#21972578)

These are native instruction sets, not a VM. The parent seems to also mean runtimes, which LLVM does not provide

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Re:Clojure for the Erlang VM by kragen on Monday January 06, 2020 @03:07PM (#21972697)

I think all of those have software implementations ("VMs")†, although it's true that some of them have hardware implementations as well ("native instruction sets"). Since the IBM 360, though, the distinction has been very fuzzy.

† although Intel Gen, RADEON, and the NVIDIA GPU ones might be an exception

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