Remove the "VM" and "bytecode" features (#745)

* Remove the "VM" and "bytecode" features

The "bytecode" in `bc.{h,cpp}` was an initial attempt at a serialized encoding for the Slang IR, but we now have the `ir-serialize.{h,cpp}` approach which was has been kept up to date much better.

Similarly, the "VM" in `vm.{h,cpp}` was intended to be a system for interpreting Slang code in the bytecode format directly (so that you could load and evaluate code in a Slang module in a lightweight fashion). This never got used past a single test, which we eventually disabled.

There are good ideas in some of this code, but at this point the implementations have bit-rotted to a point where trying to maintain it is more costly than it would be to re-created it if/when we ever decide these features are important again.

* fixup: remove slang-eval-test from Makefile

1 files changed, 0 insertions, 19 deletions

diff --git a/source/slang/vm.h b/source/slang/vm.h
deleted file mode 100644
index e67fec43a..000000000
--- a/source/slang/vm.h
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,19 +0,0 @@
-// vm.h
-#ifndef SLANG_VM_H_INCLUDED
-#define SLANG_VM_H_INCLUDED
-
-// This file defines a virtual machine for executing
-// code that has been converted to Slang bytecode.
-//
-
-#include "../core/basic.h"
-
-namespace Slang
-{
-
-
-
-}
-
-
-#endif