Re: Is there anybody out there...

"Joe Blake (Lucky Phil)" <[email protected]> Mon, 20 Jun 2011 08:42:44 +1000
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Hi Nicolas,

Thanks for the info. I'm looking at COG at the moment. Like you say it's open, and as it's the most active of the projects, it seems like a good idea to start working on ARM extensions for COG.

I'm sure there will be a lot more discussion on this on the COG lists.

Cheers,

Phil
On 19/06/2011, at 6:25 PM, nice wrote:

> COG has two flavours
> 
> 1) An accelerated Squeak interpreter (so called StackVM) - that should
> work where Squeak VM works
> 2) A JIT VM working only on x86 by now, but with an open architecture
> for extension on other CPU.
> 
> Big plus, the JIT is written in Smalltalk (slang).
> Of course, even if JIT architecture is open, someone with knowledge of
> machine instructions/registers/etc... for the specific target has to
> do the job.
> 
> Nicolas
> 
> On Jun 16, 11:13 pm, Steve Rees <[email protected]> wrote:
>> If ARM is your target the Squeak interpreter is probably your best choice.
>> Cog and Strongtalk both support x86 only for now, though I know it is
>> Eliot's intention to support other processors.
>> 
>> As far as Strongtalk goes I've moved my efforts to github and have mainly
>> been working on Brazil for Cocoa for Newspeak.
>> 
>> Regards, Steve
>> On Jun 16, 2011 9:45 PM, "Joe Blake (Lucky Phil)" <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
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