Playing with bird guts

By Jonathan Worthington (‎jnthn‎)
Date: Tuesday, 28 August 2007 13:35
Duration: 40 minutes
Target audience: Any
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How do we get from source code to execution anyway? What on
earth is continuation passing style and why does Parrot do it? How does
a JIT compiler work? What about garbage collection? And just how do
those Parrot Magic Cracker things provide interoperability between
different languages? All will be revealed! No knowledge of C or virtual
machines in general required.