[squeak-dev] Squeak on Raspbian which VM?

Herbert König herbertkoenig at gmx.net
Fri Mar 21 21:22:32 UTC 2014


Thanks David and Tim!

I plan to run it constantly so stability is the most important asset.

I'll stick with the built in VM.

Cheers,

Herbert

Am 21.03.2014 22:17, schrieb tim Rowledge:
> On 21-03-2014, at 11:58 AM, Herbert König <herbertkoenig at gmx.net> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I found that Raspbian comes with a Squeak vm. Stuck a 3.8 and a brand new 4.5 image into the folder and both work.
>>
>> Is this the right VM to use or is there a newer one?
> It’s *a* right vm - it is a recent plain interpreter with the speeded-up bitblt . There is a slightly faster vm  - a stackvm also with the betterblt - in the nuScratch alpha test packages. The latest one is at
> https://www.dropbox.com/s/oq43vfuv9gfzbq3/NuScratch5.tgz
> but you’ll have to fiddle around with installing the executables and plugins. It’s about 50% faster at typical compute jobs. A full Cog is coming but don’t hold your breath.
>
> tim
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