[squeak-dev] Thank Eliot Miranda!

karl ramberg karlramberg at gmail.com
Fri Aug 28 23:02:05 UTC 2020


Thanks all for great work :-D
Best,
Karl

On Fri, 28 Aug 2020 at 19:08, Eliot Miranda <eliot.miranda at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Ken, Hi Tony, Hi All,
>
> On Fri, Aug 28, 2020 at 7:26 AM <ken.dickey at whidbey.com> wrote:
>
>> > Many thanks to those who recently landed the ARMv8 build of Cog. (Per
>>
>>
>> the commit history I think the main person responsible was Ken Dickey?
>>
>>
>> Thanks Ken!)
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>> That was 99.997% Eliot.  I just got the vm-display-fbdev up with
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>> libevdev on Raspi3/4 & LePotato.
>>
>
> Ken, it feels to me much closer to 50/50.  You actually wrote the code and
> did the testing to get the FFI working.  Yes I helped you because it's my
> framework and my architecture, but you learned it and made it work.  But
> you *were* & *are* instrumental in realizing the ARMv8 VM.  Thank you.  In
> fact I'm extending your structs-passed-in-registers code right now to cope
> with HFAs (homogenous float arrays with four or fewer elements).  Once we
> have the JIT fully working then I can take some more credit, but you've
> supported me with crucial testing.
>
> Great thanks to Eliot !!!
>>
>
> and to Ken!!
>
>
>> -KenD
>>
>
> _,,,^..^,,,_
> best, Eliot
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