On Sun, Nov 29, 2009 at 4:36 PM, Levente Uzonyi <leves at elte.hu> wrote:

> On Sun, 29 Nov 2009, Matthew Fulmer wrote:
>
>  I also am going to make an attempt over the winter break to
>> rebase Cobalt atop Pharo. The short-term goal of this is to have
>> support for Alien FFI; long term goals are:
>>
>
> AFAIK only the mac vm supports Alien.


More correctly, Alien fully supports only IA32.  The data manipulation part
of Alien is cross-platform.  Call-out and call-back support only exists for
IA32, although callback support is pretty easy to provide for all platforms.
 Michael Haupt is looking at extracting the cross-platform part, so that
should be available generally.  I'm looking at integrating Alien marshaling
with the FFI and at supporting Alien style callbacks.  In any case it is not
a lot of work to get this stuff done.


>
>  - Finally make Tweak a loadable package
>> - Have a fast path for adopting Cog and other VM changes
>> - Get rid of one of the more unnecessary forks of Squeak
>>
>
> How can pharo (and can't squeak) help you with these goals?
>
>
> Levente
>
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