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Thank you, Dave, for supporting the V3 format!<div><br></div><div>We should also put more effort into a better SystemTracer to be able to convert between image formats (including 64/32 bits) back and forth -- even if there are some limitations. Think about converting between JPG and PNG, which is sometimes quite convenient to have. :-)</div><div><br></div><div>Best,</div><div>Marcel</div><div class="mb_sig"></div><blockquote class="history_container" type="cite" style="border-left-style:solid;border-width:1px; margin-top:20px; margin-left:0px;padding-left:10px;">
<p style="color: #AAAAAA; margin-top: 10px;">Am 14.02.2018 05:36:51 schrieb David T. Lewis <lewis@mail.msen.com>:</p>This project provides an update stream that, starting with a Squeak 4.6 release<br>image, produces an up-to-date trunk level image that can be run with either a<br>Cog/Stack or classic interpreter VM.<br><br>The resulting image uses the traditional V3 object memory format, and therefore<br>does not support Spur enhancements (immediate characters and floats, enhanced<br>memory management, etc). It does however run most Squeak functionality exactly<br>like Squeak trunk on Spur.<br><br>I put an update on the swiki here: http://wiki.squeak.org/squeak/6592<br><br>The trunk V3 image may be useful for performance comparisons related to<br>V3/Spur/Cog/Sista variants.<br><br>Note, this is a long-term update for a project that I did not intend to keep<br>alive this long. I had originally intended to maintain the V3 update stream <br>or one Squeak release cycle, but it has turned out to be useful for keeping<br>the classic interpreter VM updated with respect to VM primitives, and has<br>been something of a learning experience for me to keep up with the Context<br>refactorings, Compiler and Kernel changes, and Sista bytecodes. So for better<br>or worse, the V3 trunk stream is still alive, and I figured that it is worth<br>a mention on the squeak-dev list :-)<br><br>Dave<br><br><br>
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