Re: [Pharo-users] SIXX in Pharo 4.0?

2015-08-28 Thread H. Hirzel
Masashi Umezawa fixed the Context class issue. SIXX tests are now fine in Pharo 4.0 https://github.com/mumez/SIXX/issues/2 --Hannes On 8/24/15, H. Hirzel hannes.hir...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks for the help so far; Updated https://github.com/mumez/SIXX/issues/2 123 test cases pass.

[Pharo-users] Becoming good at VM development

2015-08-28 Thread Ichiseki
Hi hello to everyone everybody I am interesting in going deeply into VM design, development, optimization, etc. I know a lot of Haskell, a good amount of C and some languages that use VM like Python, Lua and Pharo of course. What would be a road map (books, articles, code to read) to understand

Re: [Pharo-users] Becoming good at VM development

2015-08-28 Thread Davorin Rusevljan
On Fri, Aug 28, 2015 at 10:11 AM, Ichiseki is...@outlook.com wrote: Hi hello to everyone everybody I am interesting in going deeply into VM design, development, optimization, etc. I know a lot of Haskell, a good amount of C and some languages that use VM like Python, Lua and Pharo of

Re: [Pharo-users] Becoming good at VM development

2015-08-28 Thread Christophe Demarey
Hi Le 28 août 2015 à 10:11, Ichiseki a écrit : Hi hello to everyone everybody I am interesting in going deeply into VM design, development, optimization, etc. I know a lot of Haskell, a good amount of C and some languages that use VM like Python, Lua and Pharo of course. What would be a

Re: [Pharo-users] SixxExamples class example 4 . Preferences in Pharo 4.0

2015-08-28 Thread Marcus Denker
Yes, we need re-thing and improve Preference modelling and storage. On 28 Aug 2015, at 11:39, Sven Van Caekenberghe s...@stfx.eu wrote: Preferences does not exist as a class. You could use STON. On 28 Aug 2015, at 10:31, H. Hirzel hannes.hir...@gmail.com wrote: P.S. And BTW

Re: [Pharo-users] SixxExamples class example 4 . Preferences in Pharo 4.0

2015-08-28 Thread Thierry Goubier
2015-08-28 11:49 GMT+02:00 Marcus Denker marcus.den...@inria.fr: Yes, we need re-thing and improve Preference modelling and storage. I very strongly agree... Anything which prevents failure on non-present class, or settings selector change, gets my vote. Thierry On 28 Aug 2015, at

[Pharo-users] SixxExamples class example 4 . Preferences in Pharo 4.0

2015-08-28 Thread H. Hirzel
Hello How would I write the following SIXX example in Pharo 4.0? example4 SixxExamples example4 Save and load Preferences data | preferences | preferences := Preferences allPreferenceObjects sixxString. preferences := Object readSixxFrom:

Re: [Pharo-users] SixxExamples class example 4 . Preferences in Pharo 4.0

2015-08-28 Thread H. Hirzel
P.S. And BTW besides SIXX what options do I have to transfer preferences from one Pharo 4.0 image to another? On 8/28/15, H. Hirzel hannes.hir...@gmail.com wrote: Hello How would I write the following SIXX example in Pharo 4.0? example4 SixxExamples example4 Save and load

Re: [Pharo-users] SixxExamples class example 4 . Preferences in Pharo 4.0

2015-08-28 Thread Sven Van Caekenberghe
Preferences does not exist as a class. You could use STON. On 28 Aug 2015, at 10:31, H. Hirzel hannes.hir...@gmail.com wrote: P.S. And BTW besides SIXX what options do I have to transfer preferences from one Pharo 4.0 image to another? On 8/28/15, H. Hirzel hannes.hir...@gmail.com wrote:

Re: [Pharo-users] Becoming good at VM development

2015-08-28 Thread Ichiseki
I've already read those blogs. There are lots of useful information - it seems - but what I want is a head start, something that starts from zero but for someone who has programming knowledge. I will definitely read the blue book. That goes first! Any more sources, indications? TYVM ichiro --

Re: [Pharo-users] Multi desktops inside Pharo!

2015-08-28 Thread Sean P. DeNigris
philippeback wrote FWIW, the TilingWindowManager has some support for this. Not sure how it behaves in 4.x|5.x Sean did some fixes IIRC. Sorry, I was on holidays… Yes, TWM supports multi-desktops, but it's been buggy since Pharo 4.0 and I've never tried on 5.0. - Cheers, Sean --

Re: [Pharo-users] Becoming good at VM development

2015-08-28 Thread Christian Caldeiro
Hi Ichiro, there are a bunch of posts in Mariano Martinez Peck's blog named journey through the VM, done some years ago. He writes about anything related to the VM, how to build it, class format, bytecodes, detailed description of the CompiledMethod class, etc. You can find the first post here:

[Pharo-users] Pharo 4.0 -- Inspecting a recursive data structure is slow

2015-08-28 Thread H. Hirzel
Hello I have realized that inspecting a recursive data structure is very slow in Pharo 4.0 A test case: | myDict | myDict := Dictionary new. myDict at: #hello put: 'hello'. myDict at: #recurHello put: myDict. myDict inspect It takes a long time for the inspector to come up. And the image

Re: [Pharo-users] SixxExamples class example 4 . Preferences in Pharo 4.0

2015-08-28 Thread stepharo
STON is the way to go to save preferences. But I do not have free cycles. Stef Le 28/8/15 11:55, Thierry Goubier a écrit : 2015-08-28 11:49 GMT+02:00 Marcus Denker marcus.den...@inria.fr mailto:marcus.den...@inria.fr: Yes, we need re-thing and improve Preference modelling and