On 6 September 2014 15:13, Eliot Miranda <eliot.miranda at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Frank,
>
> On Sep 5, 2014, at 2:06 PM, Frank Shearar <frank.shearar at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On 5 August 2014 17:43, Eliot Miranda <eliot.miranda at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Tue, Aug 5, 2014 at 8:13 AM, Frank Shearar <frank.shearar at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> On 5 August 2014 16:00, Eliot Miranda <eliot.miranda at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>> Hi Frank,
>>>>>
>>>>> On Aug 5, 2014, at 2:20 AM, Frank Shearar <frank.shearar at gmail.com>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> On 5 August 2014 03:49, Eliot Miranda <eliot.miranda at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>>> ...at http://www.mirandabanda.org/files/Cog/VM/VM.r3058/.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> CogVM binaries as per VMMaker.oscog-eem.842/r3058
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I'll update CI this evening.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Quick question - for the Linux VMs, am I correct in thinking that MT
>>>>>> VMs are _always_ HT? (And that on Windows they are never?)
>>>>>
>>>>> Mac and Win VMs have only heartbeat threads.  Linux VMs have either a
>>>>> heartbeat thread or the ITIMER heartbeat.  If the linux archive contains
>>>>> "ht" it's a threaded heartbeat VM, period.  The naming is screwed up because
>>>>> ITIMER used to be the only option on linux.  Would changing the names so
>>>>> that linux ITIMER VMs were singled out be useful?
>>>>
>>>> Mainly I'm trying to figure out how to map "kind of VM" to a file
>>>> name. I just noticed that
>>>> http://www.mirandabanda.org/files/Cog/VM/VM.r3058/ has a cogmtlinuxht,
>>>> but not a cogmtlinux, VM. But there are both coglinux and coglinuxht
>>>> and images, so it looks like MT and HT are orthogonal switches (on
>>>> Linux, at least).
>>>
>>>
>>> Yes.  And there is no such switch elsewhere.  And ITIMER will eventually die
>>> the death.
>>
>> With 3063 has ITIMER died the death? (I ask because there's no
>> coglinux VM, only coglinuxht.)
>
> There is a Cog ITIMER VM but no Spur ITIMER VM.  I can add one if requested but hope that it won't be needed.

I don't need one - I just made CI use an ht one when on a linux box. I
just wondered because 3063 doesn't have one, and 3060 did

frank

>> frank
>>
>>>> If they are, that's great, and I need to extend my
>>>> existing kind-of-VM to reflect this, because at the moment it knows
>>>> about :mt, :spur and :normal VMs, whereas it might need to know about
>>>> :mtht, :mt and :ht VMs. Make sense?
>>>
>>>
>>> Yes.
>>>
>>>>
>>>> (https://github.com/squeak-smalltalk/squeak-ci/blob/master/lib/squeak-ci/cog.rb
>>>> has my horrible hacks: look at cog_location and filename for the
>>>> current mapping of kind-of-VM -> string.
>>>>
>>>> frank
>>>
>>> --
>>> best,
>>> Eliot
>