[Win32] VM Update for 2.7/2.8

Bruce O'Neel beoneel at mindspring.com
Wed May 24 15:26:17 UTC 2000


Hi,  
  The ftp site now has:

<ftp://st.cs.uiuc.edu//Smalltalk/Squeak/2.7/files/SqueakExe.zip>

along with a readme cautioning about the slowness.

cheers

bruce

"Raab, Andreas" <Andreas.Raab at disney.com> wrote:
> Folks,
> 
> I've put out a suite of files for an updated 2.8 VM at
> 
> 	http://isgwww.cs.uni-magdeburg.de/~raab/squeak/SqueakExe.zip
> 
> The VM includes all the latest stuff so you may safely continue to update.
> The VM is also 100% compatible with 2.7 so you may want to get a new one
> even if you're 2.7-based (the new VM fixes the problem with dates and
> introduces fast primitive failure for named prims which should be reason
> enough to go grab it).
> 
> Besides all the new 2.8 stuff there's one major difference between the new
> 2.8 and any older VM: I've switched compilers. From now on, the Win95/98/NT
> release VMs will be build with GCC/EGCS rather than MSVC (although MSVC will
> be supported as well). Why?! Two reasons: For one thing it'll make
> recompilation possible for people that don't want to pay Microsoft a couple
> of bucks for a C compiler. Good enough reason?! No? Well, for the second
> reason: Have a look at the tinyBenchmarks of a 2.7 and the new 2.8 VM.
> That'll convince you. OpenSource rules!
> 
> Please report any crashes or other serious problems with the new VM. I've
> done quite a bit of work on it and there may be problems that I haven't
> found yet (in particular the new plugin structure may introduce a few
> complications).
> 
> Finally, a little survey: How do you guys think about distributing a 'fat'
> VM - that is a VM that has all the plugins builtin so that no extra plugin
> DLLs are needed?! It would reduce the chance of accidentally using an
> outdated plugin and possibly make redistribution a bit easier. Do you care?!
> If so, let me know. I'm your (not so) humble servant ;-)
> 
> Enjoy,
>   Andreas
> 
> PS. I haven't put out updated sources yet. I'm still trying to figure out
> what the best structure for the combined builds with MSVC/GCC is.
> 
> PPS. WinCE will have to wait a bit longer.





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