Hi,

This came from Juan Vuletich who is one of the primary people for Cuis
Smalltalk.  Cuis uses the same VM as Squeak but the image is
different.  As a result most of the discussion happens on Cuis
mailing lists etc.

Juan gave a good presentation to the UK Smalltalk User's group last
year and you can find the videos here.

Vector Graphics in Cuis Smalltalk - Wednesday 31st March
(uksmalltalk.org)
[https://www.uksmalltalk.org/2021/03/vector-graphics-in-cuis-smalltalk.html]

The main website is here - Cuis-Smalltalk | Proudly developed by Juan
Vuletich and the Cuis community. [http://www.cuis-smalltalk.org/]

cheers

bruce

On 2022-05-19T13:10:15.000+02:00,
<christoph.thiede at student.hpi.uni-potsdam.de> wrote:

> That's great news!
> 
>>  - Adds VectorEnginePlugin
> 
> Is there an easy answer to the question what that's good for? After
> some googling and searching on the mailing lists, I did not find
> any. :-)
> 
> Best,
> Christoph
> 
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> 
> On 2022-05-11T12:03:49+02:00, marcel.taeumel at hpi.de wrote:
> 
>>  Hi all!
>>  
>>  We just released the next version of the OpenSmalltalk VM. 
>>  
>>  Please find the binaries here:
>> 
> https://github.com/OpenSmalltalk/opensmalltalk-vm/releases/tag/202205110711
> [https://github.com/OpenSmalltalk/opensmalltalk-vm/releases/tag/202205110711]
>>  
>>  (see VMMaker.oscog-mt.3184 and update.oscog-mt.6.mcm)
>>  
>>  That version will be used in the upcoming Squeak 6.0 and also
> updated
>>  bundles for Squeak 5.3. And probably in upcoming Cuis releases.
> :-)
>>  
>>  Here is an attempt of a change log (since 2020): 
>>  - Adds ARMv8/Aarch64/ARM64 JIT incl. support for Apple M1
>>  - Adds "fast C primitives" via #FastCPrimitiveFlag
>>  
>>  - Adds support for catching exceptions in FFI callouts
>>  - Adds #primitiveScreenScaleFactor (for DPI-aware images)
>>  - Adds primitives 568 and 578 complementing 88 (primitiveSuspend)
>>  - Adds #primitiveMultipleBytecodeSetsActive to update image format
> for SistaV1
>>  - Adds VectorEnginePlugin
>>  - Fixes regressions in ARMv6 support
>>  - Fixes performance regressions of -metal and -opengl backends on
> macOS
>>  - Fixes -core-graphics backend on macOS
>>  - Fixes Retina scaling on macOS, i.e., support "backing scale
> factor"
>>  - Fixes primitive 126 to fail on graphics backends w/o composition
> buffer
>>  - Fixes regressions in vm-display-fbdev on Linux
>>  - Fixes time sync (e.g., for DST) on Windows
>>  - Fixes UDP binding on Windows
>>  
>>  I am sure that I forgot something especially in plugin code.
> Please expand on this.
>>  
>>  BIG THANKS to everybody who has worked on this release!
> Personally, I would like
>>  to thank Eliot, who is a great software architect who keeps on
> making the OSVM
>>  faster with every commit. Thank you!
>>  
>>  Best,
>>  Marcel (on behalf of the OSVM core dev team)
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