How does Parrot compare to other virtual machines?

Question

Parrot is the virtual machine originally designed for Perl 6.

What technical capabilities does the Parrot VM offer that competing virtual machines such as the Java Virtu

Answer 1

The main advantage and technical difference over the JVM and the CLR is that types (classes called PMC's) and ops (methods) may be dynamically loaded from efficient user-provided C implementations, and the parser framework to create and extend languages is built-in.