[squeak-dev] Squeak VM for iPad --- Current progress?

Eliot Miranda eliot.miranda at gmail.com
Wed Jul 25 22:46:02 UTC 2012


On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 1:01 AM, Stefan Marr <smalltalk at stefan-marr.de>wrote:

> Hi Marcel:
>
> On 25 Jul 2012, at 09:42, Marcel Taeumel wrote:
>
> > What is the current progress for the Squeak VM that runs on iOS?
>
> Progress? No progress there, it just works ;)
> I suppose Esteban is the 'official' maintainer. So, I guess the latest
> code is in the Pharo people's git repository: http://gitorious.org/cogvm
>
> And if you hope for a CogVM on iOS, well, that will still take a bit.
> Lars makes very good progress on the port to ARM, but it is still a lot of
> work.
>

and I think, while it'll have benefit on Android etc, it won't help iPad
because AFAIA one can't run jitted code on it (because they prevent one
obtaining executable memory by restricting mmap).

>
> Best regards
> Stefan
>
>
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-- 
best,
Eliot
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