Stefan Marr

Senior Lecturer and
Royal Society Industry Fellow

Stefan Marr I am working at the School of Computing at the University of Kent. My work focuses on programming language implementation techniques, complex concurrent systems, and tooling.

Much of work revolves around making interpreters faster, detecting and preventing concurrency bugs at run time, and use modern language runtime systems to provide programmers with better tooling.

For contact details see my page at the School of Computing.

Archive of posts with the tag Instruction Sets

Jun 16, 2021: Interpreter Generators: A Brief Look at Existing Work

Motivated by Tiger, a tool for generating interpreters, being mentioned on Twitter, I had a brief look at vmgen, Tiger, eJSTK, Truffle DSL, and DynSem. What follows are my rather rough notes and pointers. So, this is by no means a careful literature study, and I welcome further pointers.
Feb 14, 2010: Intermediate Language Design of High-level Language Virtual Machines: Towards Comprehensive Concurrency Support

My second workshop paper got published at the ACM Digital Library. This is actually only an abstract, but nonetheless, it might be interesting for people looking into the design of virtual machines and especially bytecodes/intermediate languages.