On 31/10/2007, Rob Withers <reefedjib at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Igor Stasenko" <siguctua at gmail.com>
> To: "The general-purpose Squeak developers list"
> <squeak-dev at lists.squeakfoundation.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, October 31, 2007 9:39 AM
> Subject: Re: Thoughts on a concurrent Squeak VM (was: Re: Concurrent
> Futures)
>
>
> > On 31/10/2007, Rob Withers <reefedjib at yahoo.com> wrote:
> >> Andreas,
> >>
> >> What about using C++?  There would be some degradation of performance.
> >> However, there would be the benefit of structuring the VM classes, of not
> >> having to add VM as an argument everywhere, and it may even be possible
> >> to
> >> subclass Thread so we know where the thread-local storage is.
> >>
> > I'd rather prefer to make modifications to slang to be able to
> > generate VM sources for any target language/platform and keep platform
> > dependent code in image instead in separate file(s). This all to
> > simplify build process and to keep all things together.
>
> You mean subclassing a Thread class?  Is that platform dependent?  If so, I
> didn't know that and I agree with you - it's should be out in a separate
> file, if used at all.
>
No, i mean to keep ALL plugins code in corresponding methods, and
never use external sources.
For example, a SocketPlugin can have subclasses Win32SocketPlugin,
UnixSocketPlugin
and in these subclasses we should keep a code for different platforms.
But not in .c sources.

> cheers,
> Rob
>
>
>


-- 
Best regards,
Igor Stasenko AKA sig.