virtual machine

collocation in English

meaningsofvirtualandmachine

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virtual
adjective
uk
/ˈvɜː.tʃu.əl/us
/ˈvɝː.tʃu.əl/
almost a particular thing ...
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machine
noun[C]
uk
/məˈʃiːn/us
/məˈʃiːn/
a piece of equipment with several moving parts that uses power to do a particular type ...
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(Definition ofvirtualandmachinefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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They require no changes to compiler, verifier orvirtualmachine.
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At every level, he will suppose avirtualmachineable to solve the problem of the relevant level.
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For example, they might observe high paging rates in onevirtualmachineand respond by giving it memory stolen from other virtual machines.
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A prototype implementation of the jam as avirtualmachinewas also developed, and is subject of future research.
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The coordination language describes how the computations are to be arranged on thevirtualmachine, including aspects such as thread creation, placement, and synchronisation.
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We now define a function comp that compiles an expression into code for ourvirtualmachine.
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Besides being limited to onevirtualmachine, it is a tool for connecting components not for composing new ones.
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As a first step towards addressing this issue, in this section we present a simplevirtualmachinethat can be used to implement our language of expressions.
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In the context of avirtualmachinebased implementation, a special pushdown list in combination with an iterative code fragment can be used to realize this computation.
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Test coverage tools use known dependencies between words to augment the source code and/or the interpretor/virtualmachineand generate logs of which portions of the code were exercised.
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For example, thevirtualmachinemight only allow the code access to a certain set of functions or data.
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Such instructions either access or affect state information that is outside thevirtualmachine.
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Each of these transitions is completely transparent to any users on thevirtualmachineat the time it is being migrated.
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It may co-reside withvirtualmachinesupervisors or have exclusive control of its platform.
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Thevirtualmachineon which the programs run has a stack and a heap.
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Multiple servers can read/write the same filesystem simultaneously, while individualvirtualmachinefiles are locked.
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Each thread runs a differentvirtualmachine, which runs separately from any operation happening in the others (as i.e. garbage collection).
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Thevirtualmachineis thought both as a stand-alone interpreter and for integration in third-party embedding applications.
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This happens more often for virtual stack machines than for other styles ofvirtualmachine.
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The operations implemented by thisvirtualmachineare intentionally made basic.
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