I was wondering the other day how difficult it will be to implement the Parrot VM on a real chip ?

to which stvn replied:

There is (or at least there was the last time i cared to look) a number of JVM's on a chip out there. I think the real benefit of those were in porting Java to embedded systems. And I expect that would be one "benefit" of doing the same with parrot.

starbolin quips in quoting from: IMCC and Parrot Programming for Compiler Developers - Frequently Asked Questions

Static languages, such as Java, can run on VMs that are dedicated to execution of pre-compiled byte code with no problems. Languages such as Perl, Ruby and Python are not so static. They have support for runtime evaluation and compilation and their parsers are always available. These languages run on their own "dynamic" interpreters.

Skimming through the documentation it seems one could implement PASM as a CISC machine then IMCC could be tweeked to generate code for your hardware. This would offer a natural partitioning.

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