Ok, perfect. Many thanks Eliot

Mariano

On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 1:57 PM, Eliot Miranda <eliot.miranda at gmail.com>wrote:

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> On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 10:00 PM, Mariano Martinez Peck <
> marianopeck at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> Sorry, but these are "changes" or "refactors" ?.
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> It is an alternative FFI.
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>> I mean, do these changes affect FFI uses, public interface or something?
>> Suppose I am using FFI in a project, should I care about this ?
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> No.  It is being used in the Newspeak system and I will probably use
> elements of it in my work at Qwaq and eventually it may be used to augment
> or reimplement parts of the existing FFI.  But that's in the future and so
> you don't need to worry about it yet.
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> HTH
> Eliot
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>> many thanks,
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>> mariano
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>> On Thu, Sep 4, 2008 at 12:38 AM, Andreas Raab <andreas.raab at gmx.de>wrote:
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>>> Just FYI (and in case someone wonders), I spoke to Eliot today and it
>>> seems indeed to have been a very noisy restaurant ;-) Eliot was referring to
>>> his "Alien" work which is an FFI replacement (which we have spoken about on
>>> some occasions) but as far as I am aware the code has not been published
>>> anywhere.
>>>
>>> It certainly was never sent to the VM maintainers.
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>>> Cheers,
>>>  - Andreas
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>>> Andreas Raab wrote:
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>>>> stephane ducasse wrote:
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>>>>> Eliot told me (from memory so can be wrong)
>>>>>    dan, john, andreas, tim,
>>>>> but this was in a noisy restaurant (but good)
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>>>> I'm not sure what you're referring to but I'll ask Eliot when he's back.
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>>>> Cheers,
>>>>  - Andreas
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>>>>  On Aug 30, 2008, at 12:38 PM, Bert Freudenberg wrote:
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>>>>>> Am 30.08.2008 um 12:26 schrieb stephane ducasse:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>  Hi all
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I discussed at ESUG with Eliot and he told us that he sent a while
>>>>>>> ago
>>>>>>> his changes to get a much nicer FFI implementation to the VM
>>>>>>> maintainers.
>>>>>>>
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>>>>>> I do not remember seeing this on the vm-dev list:
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>>>>>> http://www.google.com/search?q=ffi+eliot+site%3Ahttp%3A%2F%2Flists.squeakfoundation.org%2Fpipermail%2Fvm-dev%2F
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>>>>>> Whom did he sent it to exactly?
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>>>>>> - Bert -
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