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Consider changing "VM" terminology #352

Open housel opened 3 years ago

housel commented 3 years ago

In its current context, MMTk can be used for language runtimes that are not actually Virtual Machines. I suggest that might be good if MMTk could change the terminology used to so that it would include all language run-time systems, not just JVM or similar execution environments. LanguageRunTime or ExecutionEnvironment might be plausible candidates for an alternative name.

steveblackburn commented 3 years ago

Yes, this is a good point.

I suggest we move to LRT (Language RunTime).