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Reid 'arrdem' McKenzie 2022-08-13 00:03:49 -06:00
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projects/shoggoth/src/python/ichor/interpreter.py
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#!/usr/bin/env python3
"""The Ichor VM.interpreterementation.
"""The Ichor VM implementation.
The whole point of Shoggoth is that program executions are checkpointable and restartable. This requires that rather than
using a traditional recursive interpreter which is difficult to snapshot, interpretation in shoggoth occur within a
context (a virtual machine) which DOES have an easily introspected and serialized representation.
The whole point of Shoggoth is that program executions are checkpointable and restartable. Unfortunately it's difficult
to implement such snapshotting and introspection using a traditional recursive evaluator. It is however VERY easy to
bolt those capabilities onto a VM in a meaninful way. Just provide ways to break, pause or single-step the interpreter
and capture the resulting state(s).
The VM provides exactly these capabilities, along with some niceties for extensible error recovery and introspection.
"""
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# "return" via raising InterpreterRestart if that's the desired behavior. Otherwise it's too easy to put the
# interpreter into screwy states where an instruction is half-executed and we want to resume execution at that
# fine-grained undefined point.
"""Handler for interpreter errors.
Called when the interpreter encounters an illegal or incorrect state.