Strongtalk VM now open sourced

[Bill Sun]

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Sun Microsystem has open sourced the Strongtalk VM.  I remember a few positive references to Strongtalk by some of you, so I thought you might be interested in this news, if you haven't already heard.

[Brian Rice]

Yes, and a port and integration of the inliner to Slate (mostly in  
Slate with just enough VM hooks to be efficient) would solve nearly  
all of the performance problems. And it would be /interesting/.  
Someone just has to do it.

On Sep 21, 2006, at 7:38 PM, Bill Sun wrote:

> Sun Microsystem has open sourced the Strongtalk VM.  I remember a  
> few positive references to Strongtalk by some of you, so I thought  
> you might be interested in this news, if you haven't already heard.

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-Brian
http://tunes.org/~water/brice.vcf

[Bill Sun]

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Brian,

From Strongtalk's mailing list, it seems that they plan to focus on ironing out the VM first.  That said, you might be able to fish someone with the qualifying skills to help improve Slate's VM from there.

Strongtalk's developer, David Griswold, mentioned that he's not sure there's enough man power to sustain another Smalltalk variant, and that he doesn't like the idea of having multiple Smalltalk implementations.  But he will get the VM up and polished so that it may be adopted by Squeak or other projects.  After that, it may be up to the Strongtalk community to decide.

http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/strongtalk/

-Bill

----- Original Message ----
From: Brian Rice <water@...>
To: Bill Sun <billksun@...>; Slate project discussion <slate@...>
Sent: Thursday, September 21, 2006 10:07:12 PM
Subject: Re: Strongtalk VM now open sourced

Yes, and a port and integration of the inliner to Slate (mostly in  
Slate with just enough VM hooks to be efficient) would solve nearly  
all of the performance problems. And it would be /interesting/.  
Someone just has to do it.

On Sep 21, 2006, at 7:38 PM, Bill Sun wrote:

> Sun Microsystem has open sourced the Strongtalk VM.  I remember a  
> few positive references to Strongtalk by some of you, so I thought  
> you might be interested in this news, if you haven't already heard.

--
-Brian
http://tunes.org/~water/brice.vcf

[Brian Rice]

I have posted Doxygen-generated Strongtalk VM documentation to:
http://tunes.org/~water/strongtalk/vm-doc/
http://tunes.org/~water/strongtalk/vm-doc.tgz (for download and  
offline viewing)

Also, Strongtalk now has a website:
http://www.strongtalk.org/

It is using Google project hosting:
http://code.google.com/p/strongtalk/
http://groups.google.com/group/strongtalk-general
http://groups.google.com/group/strongtalk-commit

On Sep 22, 2006, at 8:47 PM, Bill Sun wrote:

> Brian,
>
> From Strongtalk's mailing list, it seems that they plan to focus on  
> ironing out the VM first.  That said, you might be able to fish  
> someone with the qualifying skills to help improve Slate's VM from  
> there.
>
> Strongtalk's developer, David Griswold, mentioned that he's not  
> sure there's enough man power to sustain another Smalltalk variant,  
> and that he doesn't like the idea of having multiple Smalltalk  
> implementations.  But he will get the VM up and polished so that it  
> may be adopted by Squeak or other projects.  After that, it may be  
> up to the Strongtalk community to decide.
>
> http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/strongtalk/
>
> -Bill
>
> ----- Original Message ----
> From: Brian Rice <water@...>
> To: Bill Sun <billksun@...>; Slate project discussion  
> <slate@...>
> Sent: Thursday, September 21, 2006 10:07:12 PM
> Subject: Re: Strongtalk VM now open sourced
>
> Yes, and a port and integration of the inliner to Slate (mostly in
> Slate with just enough VM hooks to be efficient) would solve nearly
> all of the performance problems. And it would be /interesting/.
> Someone just has to do it.
>
> On Sep 21, 2006, at 7:38 PM, Bill Sun wrote:
>
> > Sun Microsystem has open sourced the Strongtalk VM.  I remember a
> > few positive references to Strongtalk by some of you, so I thought
> > you might be interested in this news, if you haven't already heard.
>
> --
> -Brian
> http://tunes.org/~water/brice.vcf
>
>
>

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-Brian
http://tunes.org/~water/brice.vcf