NAME

       vmgen - a tool for writing fast and efficient interpreters

SYNOPSIS

       vmgen INPUTFILE

DESCRIPTION

       Vmgen  is  a  tool  for writing efficient interpreters.  It takes a simple virtual machine
       description and generates efficient C code for dealing with the virtual  machine  code  in
       various  ways  (in  particular,  executing  it).  The run-time efficiency of the resulting
       interpreters is usually within a factor of 10 of machine code produced  by  an  optimizing
       compiler.

       The  main  documentation  for  vmgen  is  in  info  format.  Please use info vmgen for the
       complete documentation on vmgen.

SEE ALSO

       The Vmgen manual in info format

       http://www.complang.tuwien.ac.at/projects/forth.html.

AUTHORS

       Vmgen was written by Anton Ertl, Bernd Paysan, Jens Wilke and others.   This  manpage  was
       created  for  the  Debian  GNU/Linux  project  by Eric Schwartz.  Any problems with it are
       entirely his fault.

                                          April 14, 1999                                 Vmgen(1)