[Pharo-users] Re: Wow - Chat GPT understands Smalltalk

2023-03-15 Thread giorgio ferraris
it's interesting to see how the answer changes with only a small change on the question: (1 to: 100 by: 4) reject: [:i | i isOdd] gives: The code creates a collection of numbers from 1 to 100, incrementing by 4 at each step using the to:by: message. It then applies the reject: message to this co

[Pharo-users] Re: Pharo concurrency: select on socket or file IO

2021-07-22 Thread giorgio ferraris
Hi, Vince, I don't know exactly Pharo, but when you fork a process, it becomes an independent thread of work. So in that process you can send your async call and wait for a response and then do the work. All inside the forked process. It's the smallalk's scheduler that will take care of passing co

[Pharo-users] Re: We haven't had a design debate in a while - thoughts on CD.buy article...

2021-04-17 Thread giorgio ferraris
Hi, Russ, I feel better after reading your mail :) That's the way I modeled and still model things in my (long...) developer life, so I felt a bit strange after reading that discussion ciao giorgio On Fri, Apr 16, 2021 at 3:45 PM Russ Whaley wrote: > Wow, I must be missing a whole lot of

Re: [Pharo-users] Corona virus

2020-03-15 Thread giorgio ferraris
Ciao, Dario, take care of you. Bergamo is on a very bad situations. giorgio On Sat, Mar 14, 2020 at 2:53 PM dario.trussardi65 < dario.trussard...@gmail.com> wrote: > Ciao, > be very careful ... it's very dangerous ... > here in Bergamo it's a disaster. > We are losing our grandparents like lea

Re: [Pharo-users] Another Smalltalk Poll

2020-01-29 Thread giorgio ferraris
seems pretty complete :) giorgio On Wed, Jan 29, 2020 at 2:18 PM Richard Kenneth Eng < horrido.hobb...@gmail.com> wrote: > Any feedback? > > [image: image.png] >

Re: [Pharo-users] [ANN] Pharo 8.0 Released!

2020-01-21 Thread giorgio ferraris
after long time, I downloaded and opened a Pharo image. Seems you did a great job on these years!! giorgio On Tue, Jan 21, 2020 at 10:00 AM Norbert Hartl wrote: > Great work and many thanks to all that supported!! > > Norbert > > > Am 20.01.2020 um 19:01 schrieb ducasse : > > I would like to

Re: [Pharo-users] [ANN] Phoedown - Markdown to HTML

2020-01-04 Thread giorgio ferraris
Hello, first of all, have a wonderful 2020.. sorry for jumping in, I'm not a contributor to Pharo, and actually never a user of it ( when I work in Smalltalk, I use VW mostly, and still need to find the time to try Pharo seriously), but I do work in Smalltalk (and Pharo is a dialect of) from earl

Re: [Pharo-users] Pharo: Git and GUI speed; JS widget reuse in PharoJS

2019-10-09 Thread giorgio ferraris
for what I know it's the way it's integrated with the underlain OS. On windows things are much, much better. *VW emulates GUIs well, but I would not expect it to beat native*. I would restate it as : I would not expect native to be slower that emulated :) seems the same, but not exactly

Re: [Pharo-users] Pharo: Git and GUI speed; JS widget reuse in PharoJS

2019-10-07 Thread giorgio ferraris
Hello, Regarding native widget, on the VW side the usage on them brought slowness on the OSX platform. Windows platform is speedy, but OSX platform is slower using native widget than with emulated ones. So native widget alone are not always a solution. ciao giorgio On Mon, Oct 7, 2019 at 2:08 PM

Re: [Pharo-users] VW vs Pharo Performance

2019-08-31 Thread giorgio ferraris
hello, Test seems old, both virtual machines (VW and Pharo) have upgraded in the meantime. VW has always been faster that Pharo for what I know, up to recent time. Recently Pharo changed the vm technology so now it should be much faster, but I don'r know is faster that VW , so it would be nice to

Re: [Pharo-users] [Vm-dev] [ANN] Pharo 4.0 is released!

2015-04-16 Thread giorgio ferraris
Hi, Guys, you did and absolutely wonderful work! giorgio ferraris On Thu, Apr 16, 2015 at 4:14 PM, Johan Fabry wrote: > > > On Apr 16, 2015, at 08:38, Sven Van Caekenberghe wrote: > > > > > >> On 16 Apr 2015, at 11:55, Tudor Girba wrote: > >> > >

Re: [Pharo-users] [ann] moose 5.0

2014-12-23 Thread giorgio ferraris
Hi, Guys, I'm not (yet) working on Pharo (still VW and some VisualSmalltalk in the few time left free from my main job), but I follow what you do (not just you but all the community) and I have to admit you (all) work really hard. Bergel is doing a fantastic job, and your Moose is very nice, etc.

Re: [Pharo-users] Pharo 3 minor issue

2014-05-01 Thread giorgio ferraris
it usually happens that way. You test everything and miss something obvious... ciao giorgio On Thu, May 1, 2014 at 9:24 AM, Esteban Lorenzano wrote: > thanks for reporting, I will look at it (super weird that it did not arise > before :( ) > > Esteban > > On 30 Apr 2014,