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When evaluated, this vm instruction sends the message
value to the first word on the stack, passing the number of
arguments specified by the argcount argument. The message word
must contain a Symbol object. There must be at least two words on the
stack. The combination of the class of the first stack word, together
with the message Symbol, determines a method function, which is
evaluated. The argcount must be an immediate Integer argument. After
the operation, the top argcount stack words are passed as arguments
to the method function method, and the result word is placed in the
target word.
The operation of this vm instruction is expressed in the
following C expression:
Name
Format
AIS Types argcount immediate integer message regoffset (word:Symbol) target regoffset word
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AIS Lambdas are designed to be write-once-run-anywhere executable objects. This is accomplished via the virtual machine concept of software Lambda execution. Lambda virtual machines are designed to be mapped onto the actual host microchip at the server location, providing faithful Lambda execution wherever the Lambda may travel on the Internet. There are currently several virtual machines operating within Analytic Information Server. The DRM virtual machine uses a Dynamically typed Register Machine model to provide portable Lambda execution from high level dynamically typed instructions all the way to super fast microchip-level register execution. The DRM virtual machine runs in emulation mode during the testing and debug phases of Lambda development, and there is an AIS Lambda debugger available for Lambdas running on this virtual machine. During the final release phases of Lambda development, DRM virtual machine Lambdas are automatically converted to the NATIVE virtual machine on the host computer, using the just-in-time compiler. The NATIVE virtual machine is a faithful machine language translation of the execution rules in the DRM virtual machine onto the actual host microchip at the server location. NATIVE virtual machine execution runs at microchip-level execution speeds.
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