[Vm-dev] Question about primitives

Andreas Raab andreas.raab at gmx.de
Tue Feb 9 18:33:34 UTC 2010


Mariano Martinez Peck wrote:
> Exactly that was my idea. I see work in progress for minimal images, but 
> not for "minimal" or more modular VM. I said I don't see not because 
> there isn't, just because I don't know.

The VM is modular by design, i.e., by using plugins. The most minimal VM 
at this point is decidedly the Android VM, see

http://code.google.com/p/squeak-android-vm/source/browse/trunk/project/jni/

 From this VM you could still remove the B2DPlugin, LargeIntegers, 
MiscPrimPlugin, and ZipPlugin. That's pretty damn minimal (the binary is 
300k in size).

Cheers,
   - Andreas


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