On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 4:14 PM, Gwenael Casaccio <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > I want to announce two projects for GNU Smalltalk: > > 1) Multiple domains or "kernels" support in the VM: > --------------------------------------------------- > > The problem with Smalltalk is it doesn't know what is a "program", > if you start two programs and the first change the class A it will > impact the second programs that use it; this is a simple example, > there are also the memory iterations, or security issues with reflection, > ... > Now with the domain models you are allowed to create multiple environments > that are separate/isolated from each others. I plan to improve the IDE to > support it. I will write others posts to explain in depth the implementation > and how to use it. > > [email protected]:MrGwen/GNU-Smalltalk.git the branch domain > > > 2) GST Without ObjectTables: > ---------------------------- > > I've started it for fun :D, don't expect a fully running GST, now > I've made a tool that generate a small image (1,5 Mo don't forget 64 bits > pointers) and just send few messages and after it crashes ;-) > I've removed the c bootstrap code, the compiler, and break a lot of stuffs > too (like the GC :D) . My plans are to make the VM model simple. GST knows > too much stuffs when I've implemented the domain support I was afraid by the > number of classes, symbols known by the VM. > > For the GC I don't know what I'll do, I think we could disuss on the ml > about a nice GC model (don't stop the world and // compaction). Anyway > that's the beginning of a new story. > > But the first step is to clean up what I've done. > > [email protected]:MrGwen/GNU-Smalltalk.git the branch domainMemoryOT > [email protected]:MrGwen/gst-bootstrap.git the image generator > > Cheers, > Gwen >
I've made some progress: - the builtin selectors are in the image and restored - fix a crash with bad casting and pointer arithmetic -_-' Next step: - fixing context allocation/recycling Cheers, Gwen _______________________________________________ help-smalltalk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-smalltalk
