[squeak-dev] re: would it be fun to implement Squeak (and SPOON!)
on this hardware?
Doug Jones
djsdl at frombob.to
Mon Dec 23 00:53:57 UTC 2013
On 12/22/2013 03:24 PM, Craig Latta wrote:
>
>> Why not strip the VM down as far as possible too, and pull in
>> additional things when needed? Just enough VM to run a minimal
>> Spoon. It doesn't have to be fast; it can pull in speedup methods
>> as needed (or perhaps even swap itself for a fancier VM on the
>> fly???).
>
> Sure, that's the plan. I first asked someone to help with that in
> 1998. It's not hard. No one has decided to devote time to it. Now's your
> chance. :)
>
If all goes to plan I should be getting one of these boards by March.
I've already thought of a number of things to try out on it. One of my
weirder ideas is to use the existing Python implementation to somehow
bootstrap other VMs on this hardware. Not that I have any idea how to
do this... But it's fun to think about...
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