Vmgen(1)

💖 Vmgen — bestie edition 💖

okay so you found the General Commands Manual page for Vmgen(1) and honestly? slay. let's get into it.

✨ NAME ✨

vmgen — a tool for writing fast and efficient interpreters 🏃♀️💨

🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

vmgen INPUTFILE

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

okay so bestie, listen. Vmgen is a tool for writing efficient interpreters. no cap.

what it does is: you hand it a simple virtual machine description, and it goes off and generates efficient C code for dealing with the virtual machine code in all sorts of ways — and yes, in particular, executing it. that's the main character job fr fr.

and the way the resulting interpreters perform?? the run-time efficiency of the interpreters it spits out is usually within a factor of 10 of machine code produced by an optimizing compiler. like. that's actually iconic. 💅

heads up though: the main documentation for vmgen lives in info format. so if you want the COMPLETE documentation, please use info vmgen. the manpage is giving summary energy, the info file is the whole story. iykyk 🦋

🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

• The Vmgen manual in info format
• https://www.complang.tuwien.ac.at/projects/forth.html 🌈

👑 AUTHORS 👑

Vmgen was written by Anton Ertl, Bernd Paysan, Jens Wilke and others. absolute legends, no notes. 🫶

This manpage was created for the Debian GNU/Linux project by Eric Schwartz. and the plot twist? any problems with it are entirely his fault. 😭 he said it himself, we're just the messengers.

and that's the whole vibe check bestie — this page is from April 14, 1999, part of the Vmgen(1) manual, and yeah it's been serving looks ever since. 🎀✨ go run it, you got this. 💖🦋