Re: Lua Virtual Machine Implementation

[François Perrad <francois.perrad@...>]

2009/10/15 Alex de Magalhães <alexdemagalhaes@gmail.com>:
> Hello everybody,
>
> I am an undergraduate student and on the course of Dedicated Operating
> Systems I must choose a theme for a implementation project in system
> software. I chose to research and implement some changes to the Lua virtual
> machine.
>
> Thus, I would like to know what papers, or books, or tutorials you recommend
> me to read, and if there are documents describing the implementation of the
> virtual machine so I can study it. I downloaded the Lua source code, I saw
> the files related to LVM, but there's not MUCH documentation in the code,
> and everything I know about its functionality is what I read in articles
> about it.
>
> I'm asking you because there might be a tutorial for those who want to start
> programming on the LVM itself.
>

A great ressource is : A No Frills Intro To Lua 5.1 VM Instructions

François.

> Anyway, I'll be waiting for an answer.
>
> Grateful, Alex.