@inproceedings{TowardVirtual-Roberts2017,
    title = {Toward Virtual Machine Adaption Rather than Reimplementation},
    booktitle = {Workshop on Modern Language Runtimes, Ecosystems, and VMs},
    year = 2017,
    url = "https://michael.homer.nz/Publications/MoreVMs2017/TowardVirtual-Roberts2017.pdf",
    author = {Roberts, Richard and Marr, Stefan and Homer, Michael and Noble, James},
    abstract = {
        We adapt SOMns, a Truffle-based interpreter for Newspeak, to the
        Grace programming language. We highlight differences between the
        semantics of these languages and offer preliminary results showing that
        adaption is possible while retaining performance. The similarities
        between the languages promote the potential for adaption and code
        sharing between implementations. Through experimentation we intend to
        explore how the design of the tailored implementation; the flexibility
        of the underlying framework; and similarities between languages affect
        adaptability, and by doing so hope to realize a set of mechanisms that
        can be easily extended to create optimized virtual machines for
        object-orientated languages.
    }
}