Parrot Virtual Machine
Parrot is a register-based process virtual machine designed to run dynamic languages efficiently. It is currently possible to compile Parrot assembly language and PIR (an intermediate language) to Parrot bytecode and execute it. Parrot is free and open source software.
Parrot was started by the Perl community and is developed with help from the open source and free software communities. As a result, it is focused on license compatibility (Artistic License 2.0), platform compatibility across a broad array of systems, processor architecture compatibility across most modern processors, speed of execution, small size (around 700k depending on platform), and the flexibility to handle the varying demands that Perl 6, and most other modern dynamic languages make. Other goals include improving introspection, debugger capabilities, and compile-time semantic modulation.
Version 1.0, with a stable API for development, was released on March 17, 2009. The current release of Parrot is version 4.10.0 "Red-eared Parakeet", released on November 21, 2012.
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