[Pharo-users] Re: [Pharo-dev] beta testers for the new version of the Pharo mooc

2020-10-01 Thread Christopher Fuhrman
Hi Stef, At the very least I can help, but I will try to find some students. I just upgraded to WSL2 on Windows 10 and would like to see how Pharo performs. C. Fuhrman On Wed, Sep 30, 2020, 10:30 Stéphane Ducasse wrote: > Hello guys > > We are looking for beta tester for the new version of the

[Pharo-users] Re: Energy efficiency of Pharo/Smalltalk

2020-10-01 Thread Mariano Martinez Peck
Hi there, We did a related experiment with VA Smalltalk and other languages like Python, Java, etc... the context was how a JIT compiler can also help you reduce energy consumption...which could be very important for IoT. We did experiments on a Raspberry Pi, run some benchmarks and with some hard

[Pharo-users] Re: [Pharo-dev] beta testers for the new version of the Pharo mooc

2020-10-01 Thread Juan Pablo Sandoval Alcocer
Hi Stef, Daniel (in copy), one of my students, is willing to help. He started with Pharo one year ago, he also read the previous version of Pharo mooc. Regards, Juan P. El mié., 30 sept. 2020 a las 10:30, Stéphane Ducasse (< stephane.duca...@inria.fr>) escribió: > Hello guys > > We are looking

[Pharo-users] Re: exercism bowling challenge

2020-10-01 Thread Russ Whaley
Yes, my thoughts - since I'm not as technical as the rest of you: BowlingGame class "runs the game a calls each frame to 'process'" - frames (1-10 aFrame objects) - score (aScore object) - currentFrame Frame class "frame handles #throws, pins remaining, and lets Game know when to advance to next

[Pharo-users] Energy efficiency of Pharo/Smalltalk

2020-10-01 Thread Jonathan van Alteren
Hi all, I am interested in energy efficiency metrics for Pharo (version >=8). Just now, I came across this research and related GitHub project: • https://sites.google.com/view/energy-efficiency-languages • https://github.com/greensoftwarelab/Energy-Languages Unfortunately, the paper mentions t

[Pharo-users] Re: Space Based Repetition

2020-10-01 Thread Sean P. DeNigris
Tim Mackinnon wrote > I don’t quite know how you choose or specify the probabilities… I’m > enquiring. Please report back on your findings! Tim Mackinnon wrote > SM-2 always intrigued me… but was trying to avoid the inevitable rabbit > hole Yes, same. Although I'm sure I will eventually get pul