Crate strontium

Introduction

Strontium is a bytecode interpreter for static and dynamic programming languages.

It is built primarily to support Mag as the underlying, executive portion of the language engine. Any Mag source code first runs through the compiler, is then compiled to Strontium bytecode and finally interpreted by this virtual machine.

A small example

Performing a simple arithmetic operation like 2 + 3 can be expressed like this using Strontium instructions (and an assembler which does not exist yet):

LOAD::Int64 r1 2
LOAD::Int64 r2 3
ADD r1 r2 r3
PRINT r3

This will load both numbers into registers r1 and r2, add them together and store the result in register r3. Finally, the result is printed to standard output.

Re-exports

• pub use self::machine::Strontium;
• pub use self::machine::instruction::Instruction;

Modules

• machine
  This module contains the virtual machine which executes Strontium bytecode. The VM uses a set of typed registers to do number arithmetic, a memory vector provides the storage space for anything else.
• types