When: Wednesday, July 8, 2009
Topic: The Parrot Virtual Machine
Speaker: Allison Randal
Time: 6:30pm doors open
7:00pm meeting begins
Where: Symantec
VCAFE building
350 Ellis Street (near E. Middlefield Road)
Mountain View, CA 94043
Map: <http://tinyurl.com/334rv5>
Directions: VCAFE is accessible from the semicircular courtyard between Symantec
buildings <http://tinyurl.com/2dccgc>
Cost: Free
More Info: <http://www.accu-usa.org>

Parrot is a register-based virtual machine, developed in C and intended to run a
variety of dynamic languages efficiently, starting with but not at all limited
to Perl 6, using just-in-time compilation for speedy operation and minimum
overhead. Serendipitously, it's ended up being small, efficient, and flexible
enough for most interpreted languages. It also recently reached production
status. (See: http://www.parrot.org/)

Allison Randal is a linguist, software developer, chief architect for the Parrot
virtual machine, Perl Foundation Board member, coauthor of Perl 6 and Parrot
Essentials, Second Edition and of some of the Perl 6 Synopses, and editor of
various O'Reilly books on dynamic languages including Perl Hacks: Tips & Tools
for Programming, Debugging, and Surviving and Programming PHP. She also serves
as Program Chair for O'Reilly's Open Source Convention, and is employed by
O'Reilly Media (formerly O'Reilly and Associates).

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