On Apr 11, 2011, at 3:00 PM, Mark Roos wrote:
> I know you are all working hard to bring 292 to a release so I thought I
> would take a moment
> to thank you all for your work and to tell you how much that work helped with
> our Smalltalk
> porting.
>
> We have about 500K lines of Smalltalk code which we want to run on the JVM.
> The approach we
> picked was to translate the Smalltalk byte codes to jvm byte codes. We
> (oscar and myself) had
> looked at this prior to 292 but it seemed like a lot of work. But after
> attending the last
> dynamic languages conference we decided to give it a shot with invoke
> dynamic.
>
> Wow, the implementation went extremely well. We were able to implement all
> of the Smalltalk constructs
> with what is there today. We are loading an image ( ST's code base),
> creating java classes on demand,
> and using invoke dynamic to execute Smalltalk code on the jvm. All this with
> a part time effort. The
> ease of putting a true dynamic language on the jvm was a wonder in itself.
> All this with about 3K lines
> of java code.
>
> Thanks to everyone for making this a easy trip. Some work which saved us a
> lot of time: John's anno
> Class loader, Rémi's work on ASM4 and Stephen's Mac ports. And all of the
> friendly advice on this list.
>
> We have lots of code to pour in and test but the uncertainty is gone.
That's great news! I would like to give it a shot and run a couple of tests on
different machines and architectures. Is that possible?
-- Christian
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