[squeak-dev] step through VM source

Eliot Miranda eliot.miranda at gmail.com
Fri Aug 7 18:00:17 UTC 2009


On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 7:46 PM, askoh <askoh at askoh.com> wrote:

>
> Thanks for the detailed article about making Squeak callable.
>
> Instead of having a monolithic vm, can we break squeak.exe into squeak2.exe
> and squeak2.dll? The squeak2.exe will do the complex multi threaded tasks
> and call squeak2.dll which is more passive and simple. The novelty here is
> that squeak2.dll can be callable by any *.exe in any language. I also
> believe squeak2.dll would be useful for parallel processing in multi-cores.
> Is this a good idea? Is it doable?


Packaging as a split .exe/.dll is a prerequisite of being able to link to
the VM and is trivial.  The bulk of the work is in the asynchronous
call-back machinery.


>
> Thanks,
> Aik-Siong Koh
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