[Vm-dev] Event VM: current status?

[Andreas Raab]

On 4/6/2011 18:03, Igor Stasenko wrote:
>
> On 6 April 2011 15:53, Dimitry Golubovsky<golubovsky at gmail.com>  wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> It is my understanding that the version of Squeak VM ("Event VM") that
>> was used in the original Android port (and the same I am using in my
>> fork) differs from the "mainline" VM that interpret() is not an
>> infinite loop but rather a handler of some events queue (a ring buffer
>> as I conclude from the sources) which returns once the queue is empty.
>>
>> Please correct me if I am wrong.
>>
>> There is a zip-file (witn a Windows executable inside) for this VM
>> dated 13-Nov-2009. Has there been any progress since? Can the event VM
>> be recreated these days using VMMaker and related tools, or was it an
>> ad-hoc modification of a VMMaker code output?
>>
>> Such VM looks very convenient for embedding (just like the Android
>> port is an example of embedding into JVM), so Squeak might be used as
>> a very powerful GUI frontend library with backend being anything else.
>>
> i have no idea about existence of this guy..

You participated in the discussion :-)
http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/pipermail/vm-dev/2009-November/003385.html
http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/pipermail/vm-dev/2009-November/003437.html

The result was the Android VM:
http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/pipermail/vm-dev/2010-January/003684.html

Cheers,
   - Andreas