[squeak-dev] Re: [Pharo-dev] New Cog VMs available
Douglas McPherson
djm1329 at san.rr.com
Sun Nov 16 05:06:03 UTC 2014
… and ARMv6 and ARMv7 stack and stack/spur VMs updated accordingly.
Doug
> On Nov 15, 2014, at 19:24, Eliot Miranda <eliot.miranda at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi All,
>
> problems solved. So new VMs available at http://www.mirandabanda.org/files/Cog/VM/VM.r3137/ <http://www.mirandabanda.org/files/Cog/VM/VM.r3137/>.
>
> CogVM binaries as per VMMaker.oscog-eem.935/r3137
>
> These VMs should be functionally identical to the 3126 VMs; the core VM differs
> only in having been compiled from generated source that has been refactored to
> enable convenient 32-bit to 64-bit Spur image bootstrap. I'm building and
> releasing them mostly to test that refactoring. However, there is new DNS
> support on Windows and SSL support on Unix. See below.
>
> Simulator/Slang:
> Refactor to allow 32-bit and 64-bit Spur to coexist
> in the simulator, thereby allowing a 64-bit bootstrap.
>
> Replace direct use of BytesPerWord, ShiftForWord, BytesPerOop and BaseHeaderSize
> with sends of wordSize, shiftForWord, bytesPerOop & baseHeaderSize respectively.
> Make sure these are still output as the manifest constants in the generated C.
> Eliminate use of bytesPerSlot in favour of bytesPerOop. The use of sends is
> similar to those in trunk VMMaker, but I don't have time to merge. Sorry :-(.
>
> Work-around use of sends for bytesPerOop in e.g. generateToByDo:on:indent: and
> users of isConstantNode:valueInto:.
>
> Do a better job at inlining via inlineCodeOrNilForStatement:in:. Comment in
> isNode:substitutableFor:inMethod:in: explains.
>
> Eliminate generic VM_LABEL support, labelling only the bytecodes in interpret.
>
> Eliminate use of LargeContextSize in the stack and cog VMs. Alas haven't yet
> eliminated the frame offset constants such as FoxCallerSavedIP et al. We only
> need one of the two word sizes of interpreter to be executable in the bootstrap.
>
> And remember to generate the GdbARMPlugin
>
> Add accessorDepths for the exported browser plugin primitives for Spur.
>
> Merge Levente's recent changes to DNS lookup on Windows and SSL on Unix.
> See http://squeakvm.org/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi/squeak?view=revision&revision=2249 <http://squeakvm.org/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi/squeak?view=revision&revision=2249>
> http://bugs.squeak.org/view.php?id=7824 <http://bugs.squeak.org/view.php?id=7824>
>
> Have the Unix & Mac VMs print the process id and working directory when blocking
> on error or assert fail. Add scripts for the ARM VM archives.
>
>
> On Fri, Nov 14, 2014 at 3:11 PM, Eliot Miranda <eliot.miranda at gmail.com <mailto:eliot.miranda at gmail.com>> wrote:
> ... at http://www.mirandabanda.org/files/Cog/VM/VM.r3133/ <http://www.mirandabanda.org/files/Cog/VM/VM.r3133/>.
>
> CogVM binaries as per VMMaker.oscog-eem.934/r3133
> These VMs should be functionally identical to the 3126 VMs; the core VM differs
> only in having been compiled from generated source that has been refactored to
> enable convenient 32-bit to 64-bit Spur image bootstrap. I'm building and
> releasing them mostly to test that refactoring. However, there is new DNS
> support on Windows and SSL support on Unix. See below.
>
> Simulator/Slang:
> Refactor to allow 32-bit and 64-bit Spur to coexist
> in the simulator, thereby allowing a 64-bit bootstrap.
>
> Replace direct use of BytesPerWord, ShiftForWord, BytesPerOop and BaseHeaderSize
> with sends of wordSize, shiftForWord, bytesPerOop & baseHeaderSize respectively.
> Make sure these are still output as the manifest constants in the generated C.
> Eliminate use of bytesPerSlot in favour of bytesPerOop. The use of sends is
> similar to those in trunk VMMaker, but I don't have time to merge. Sorry :-(.
>
> Work-around use of sends for bytesPerOop in e.g. generateToByDo:on:indent: and
> users of isConstantNode:valueInto:.
>
> Do a better job at inlining via inlineCodeOrNilForStatement:in:. Comment in
> isNode:substitutableFor:inMethod:in: explains.
>
> Eliminate generic VM_LABEL support, labelling only the bytecodes in interpret.
>
> Eliminate use of LargeContextSize in the stack and cog VMs. Alas haven't yet
> eliminated the frame offset constants such as FoxCallerSavedIP et al. We only
> need one of the two word sizes of interpreter to be executable in the bootstrap.
>
> And remember to generate the GdbARMPlugin
>
> Add accessorDepths for the exported browser plugin primitives for Spur.
>
> Merge Levente's recent changes to DNS lookup on Windows and SSL on Unix.
> See http://squeakvm.org/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi/squeak?view=revision&revision=2249 <http://squeakvm.org/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi/squeak?view=revision&revision=2249>
> http://bugs.squeak.org/view.php?id=7824 <http://bugs.squeak.org/view.php?id=7824>
>
> Have the Unix & Mac VMs print the process id and working directory when blocking
> on error or assert fail. Add scripts for the ARM VM archives.
> --
> best,
> Eliot
>
>
>
> --
> best,
> Eliot
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