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As far as this paper goes, the main idea is pluralism. Much software lore leans quite heavily on grand narratives about how things "should be done". The "postmodern" view is a reac…

Not sure whether you're disagreeing with the paper or the commenter's summary of it. As you could probably guess from the title of the paper, the goal is not a new "fully general" …

True that the CLR is not mentioned by name, but it is covered. I invite you to read the text again, and especially the following bit. "Specifically, we should aspire to package lan…

Good question. I agree that endless muddling has shown remarkable mileage. liballocs is not quite there yet, but is progressing (er, when I get time, which is not often enough). Be…

Ouch. :-) There's a lot more to it than that, though wrapping malloc is certainly one part of it. (Reminds me I should finish my blog post on why wrapping malloc reliably is way ha…

Thanks! Indeed I should have said "no more difficult to maintain than V8 in general... i.e. well beyond a researcher's means".

An important bit of context is that this is a talk from the workshop "MoreVMs", which is about -- you guessed it -- language VMs and not systems VMs. In that context, the qualifier…

Indeed, it's Nimbus Roman. I did nothing special -- the SIGPLAN template did it for me. I had been assuming it just did \usepackage{times} internally, though on inspection it does …