Creating a Virtual Machine

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Creating a Virtual Machine

Table of Contents

• Introduction
• VM Design Considerations
• Register VM in C
• Register VM in Swift
• Adding Memory
• Additional Instructions
• Subroutines
• Creating a BIOS
• Loading a Binary File
• Running a Program From Disk
• Stack-Register VM in Java
• Symbolic Stack VM in Erlang
• Writing a Compiler
  • A High-Level Language to Compile