The original mod.sources source code to Larry Wall’s #Usenet newsreader rn. Contains the famous line, “Congratulations. You aren’t running Eunice.” #VMS #history
a substantial part of #VMS is still written in #BLISS and MACRO-32, although new code is in C since the 01990s
on 02022-05-21the GraalVM is licensed under GPLv2 with the classpath exception, just like the JVM #java #vms #licensing
on 02020-05-24how to measure #performance of virtual machines, including #LuaJIT and #V8; Laurie Tratt argues that current #VMs are slow in part because of Goodhart’s Law: people engineer their VMs to do well on their benchmarks, but the benchmarks are unrepresentative.
on 02020-05-24