Hey y'all, there is a discussion thread on this article [1] about Smalltalk on a Pi. I commented pointing to Squeak on a Pi. Another commenter made this statement and I wish to respond.

> I used a Squeak variant to test hardware and prototype UI ideas. Ran like a champ on bare bones 68000, PPC & ARM boards.
>
> The only critique I have of using Squeak out of the box is it’s original VM used polling for I/O. I’m sure there are VMs by now that don’t have this problem. And message dispatch is a bit of a pig in terms of power usage. But again, a properly JITted Smalltalk VM should be fine. I would LOVE IT if Smalltalk or Self became popular for embedded work.

K, r

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[1] Making Smalltalk On A Raspberry Pi - https://hackaday.com/2020/07/12/making-smalltalk-on-a-raspberry-pi/

On 7/13/20 9:45 AM, Robert Withers wrote:

> Hello everyone!
>
> Does the current cog spur 64-it VM use polling I/O? Or is some other
> mechanism used?
>
> Kindly,
> rabbit
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