But once you are using an image on a given platform it may not work on another one just like that (e.g. FreeType will give trouble).
Phil On Wed, Apr 11, 2018, 08:52 Guillermo Polito <guillermopol...@gmail.com> wrote: > VMs share most of the code. At least the basic interpreter, primitives and > garbage collector. > But there are some platform specificities such as how some plugins are > managed. > Also there are different JIT backends, one per platform. > I don't know if a VM comes shipped with all of them or just the one needed. > > For more details, better ask the vm-dev mailing list. > > On Wed, Apr 11, 2018 at 12:39 AM, Benoit St-Jean via Pharo-dev < > pharo-dev@lists.pharo.org> wrote: > >> >> >> ---------- Forwarded message ---------- >> From: Benoit St-Jean <bstj...@yahoo.com> >> To: Pharo Development List <pharo-dev@lists.pharo.org>, "Peter Uhnák" < >> i.uh...@gmail.com> >> Cc: >> Bcc: >> Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2018 22:39:16 +0000 (UTC) >> Subject: Re: [Pharo-dev] Images, VMs and 32 vs 64bit >> Thanks! >> >> I don't really care about the image format, my question was more oriented >> towards the code itself. As I don't have a Mac, I was curious as to >> whether there would be code differences between platforms, VMs and 32 vs >> 64bit distributions, code-wise! >> >> >> ----------------- >> Benoît St-Jean >> Yahoo! Messenger: bstjean >> Twitter: @BenLeChialeux >> Pinterest: benoitstjean >> Instagram: Chef_Benito >> IRC: lamneth >> Blogue: endormitoire.wordpress.com >> "A standpoint is an intellectual horizon of radius zero". (A. Einstein) >> >> >> On Tuesday, April 10, 2018, 6:29:33 p.m. EDT, Peter Uhnák < >> i.uh...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> >> > images for different platforms (Mac, Linux, Windows) >> >> yes >> It is the responsibility of the VM to contain the differences. Note that >> there's some "platform-specific" code, but the image contains the code for >> all platforms at once. >> Generally speaking you can code on one platform, copy the image files to >> another and continue your work (although doing this can cause trouble, as >> e.g. some file paths may now point to non-existing locations). >> You can download the images independently of the platform too (e.g. Pharo >> 6 images: http://files.pharo.org/image/60/ ) >> >> > VMs (32bit, 64bit) >> >> yes? >> the files are different, but I don't know if there's code difference, or >> if the images are just built with different memory layouts >> >> Peter >> >> On Wed, Apr 11, 2018 at 12:13 AM, Benoit St-Jean via Pharo-dev < >> pharo-dev@lists.pharo.org> wrote: >> >> >> >> ---------- Forwarded message ---------- >> From: Benoit St-Jean <bstj...@yahoo.com> >> To: Pharo Development List <pharo-dev@lists.pharo.org> >> Cc: >> Bcc: >> Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2018 22:13:18 +0000 (UTC) >> Subject: Images, VMs and 32 vs 64bit >> I was wondering if images for different platforms (Mac, Linux, Windows) >> and VMs (32bit, 64bit) are, code-wise, the same? By "the same", I mean do >> they all have the exact same code base or some classes/methods are in some >> and not in others or different? >> >> ----------------- >> Benoît St-Jean >> Yahoo! Messenger: bstjean >> Twitter: @BenLeChialeux >> Pinterest: benoitstjean >> Instagram: Chef_Benito >> IRC: lamneth >> Blogue: endormitoire.wordpress.com >> "A standpoint is an intellectual horizon of radius zero". (A. Einstein) >> >> >> >> > > > -- > > > > Guille Polito > > Research Engineer > > Centre de Recherche en Informatique, Signal et Automatique de Lille > > CRIStAL - UMR 9189 > > French National Center for Scientific Research - *http://www.cnrs.fr > <http://www.cnrs.fr>* > > > *Web:* *http://guillep.github.io* <http://guillep.github.io> > > *Phone: *+33 06 52 70 66 13 >
