Virtual Machines

Craig, Iain D.

ISBN 10: 1849969809 / ISBN 13: 9781849969802

Published by Springer, 2011

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Virtual Machines
• Publisher: Springer
• Publication Date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1849969809
• ISBN 13: 9781849969802
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: Like New
• Book Type: book

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Synopsis

Provides a unique insight into virtual machines via the comparison of different VMs as well as providing actual, practical examples on how to build VMs for sequential languages.

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Virtual Machines offers a unique insight into the building of virtual machines for sequential, object-oriented and parallel languages, and uses comparisons of different VMs to provide actual, practical examples on how to build VMs.

State transitions are used as a formal technique for the specification of virtual machines throughout and - in addition – transitions and state transitions relating to the general operation are included for specification of the virtual machine for the event-based system. Two virtual machines are defined using a simple sequential language, which is then generalised to include object and parallelism. Other themes explored include the implementation of VMs and proposals for future work. Appendices contain high-level specifications of two compilers: one for the simple language that serves as the basic example throughout the book, the other for the event-based language specified in Chapter 6.

This book is an essential reference tool for academic and industrial researchers as well as postgraduates in this area.