As far as I can see, he is in the formalizing (a subset of) Smalltalk phase. We must be patient, such formal stuff cannot be hurried ;-)
On 12 Jul 2010, at 16:45, Stéphane Ducasse wrote: > I would love to hear more about oscar. I would love to know where the > libraries could be improved to have more coherent type information. > I told him when I visited you but so far we got no feedback. We will see if > there are some results. > > Stef > >> >> Gradual typing could help there, doing optimisations where possible. Eric >> has a PhD student (Oscar) working on gradual typing, with Pharo as the test >> bed. Next semester there should start a second one with me (Esteban) that is >> going to look at the vm side of things: if type info is available, use it to >> optimise ... >> >> So, we are working on it ;-) > -- Johan Fabry jfa...@dcc.uchile.cl - http://dcc.uchile.cl/~jfabry PLEIAD Lab - Computer Science Department (DCC) - University of Chile _______________________________________________ Pharo-project mailing list Pharo-project@lists.gforge.inria.fr http://lists.gforge.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pharo-project
