> On 14 Dec 2015, at 14:14, Tudor Girba <tu...@tudorgirba.com> wrote: > > Thank you Eliot & Esteban for making this happen!
Yes! > Exciting times :) Yes! > Cheers, > Doru > > > >> On Dec 14, 2015, at 11:24 AM, Esteban Lorenzano <esteba...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> We will start migration to Spur today. >> To complete it, we will require some time, specially to adapt the CI and >> check everything is ok. >> >> Spur will allow us to do a big step forward in Pharo development, in the >> concrete you will see it immediately for this: >> - We have noticed a speed increment of 100% in tiny benchmarks (and >> according to Eliot, it will be at least 35% in general on the system). >> - No more GC stops (noticeable when running large systems) >> - We will be able to scale our systems up to 2G memory consumption without >> loosing performance. >> >> But, this will have some drawbacks in the first times: >> >> 1) VM will not be compatible between versions anymore: Pharo 5.0 will have a >> Pharo Spur VM associated (and they are not compatible). >> - There WILL NOT be a "non-spur" version of Pharo 5.0. Once completed >> the transitions, this will be the only one. >> >> 2) NativeBoost-FFI implementation has been replaced with a new >> implementation who relies in ThreadedFFIPlugin and IA32Plugin. While we >> worked a lot to do this transition as painless as possible and we achieve a >> good level of backward compatibility (most uses of #nbCall: should work out >> of the box), there are some problems we cannot solve: >> - there are some stuff not possible to compatibilise, notably: >> - Structures now need to inherit from FFIExternalStructure >> - Arrays now are now shadowed >> - in general is a bit slower (impossible to compete with ASM) but in >> general is not perceptible. >> - THERE WILL BE BUGS AND NON-IMPLEMENTED FEATURES: Current >> implementation is validated with Athens and even Roassal was working, but of >> course that does not covers all cases. >> 2.1) ASMJIT will be removed from system and put in a separated packages. >> NOTE: There will be a blog post explaining FFI-NB architecture during the >> week. >> >> 3) There are more or less 70 new failing tests, some of them important than >> we need to fix as soon as possible. Please, please, please, help us with >> them :) >> >> 4) In general we foresee the system will became unstable some weeks, before >> it gets back to normal. Please be patient. >> >> 5) You will need to adapt your Pharo 5.0 related apps and CI processes (to >> take care about new VM). Some programs will stop work at all (for example, I >> think Pharo-launcher will need to be adapted). >> >> > > -- > www.tudorgirba.com > www.feenk.com > > "Presenting is storytelling." > >