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I'm having a hard time understanding the difference between an emulation virtual machine and a language vm. I started with the research and implementation of an emulation virtual machine. Primarily emulating quite old 16-bit architectures.

I want to get the basics down for a language virtual machine. Are both systems similar? Do they both use register-based architectures and stack-based?

I'm under the impression a language VM is basically a run time environment. Depending on the complexity of the VM, it may have a garbage collector, JIT compiler, etc... Would that assumption be correct?

EDIT: I'm also talking about bytecode VMs, but native machine code works too.

I'm having a hard time understanding the difference between an emulation virtual machine and a language vm. I started with the research and implementation of an emulation virtual machine. Primarily emulating quite old 16-bit architectures.

I want to get the basics down for a language virtual machine. Are both systems similar? Do they both use register-based architectures and stack-based?

I'm under the impression a language VM is basically a run time environment. Depending on the complexity of the VM, it may have a garbage collector, JIT compiler, etc... Would that assumption be correct?

I'm having a hard time understanding the difference between an emulation virtual machine and a language vm. I started with the research and implementation of an emulation virtual machine. Primarily emulating quite old 16-bit architectures.

I want to get the basics down for a language virtual machine. Are both systems similar? Do they both use register-based architectures and stack-based?

I'm under the impression a language VM is basically a run time environment. Depending on the complexity of the VM, it may have a garbage collector, JIT compiler, etc... Would that assumption be correct?

EDIT: I'm also talking about bytecode VMs, but native machine code works too.

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Difference between language virtual machine and emulating vm?

I'm having a hard time understanding the difference between an emulation virtual machine and a language vm. I started with the research and implementation of an emulation virtual machine. Primarily emulating quite old 16-bit architectures.

I want to get the basics down for a language virtual machine. Are both systems similar? Do they both use register-based architectures and stack-based?

I'm under the impression a language VM is basically a run time environment. Depending on the complexity of the VM, it may have a garbage collector, JIT compiler, etc... Would that assumption be correct?