[Vm-dev] Event VM: current status?

Igor Stasenko siguctua at gmail.com
Wed Apr 6 16:41:38 UTC 2011


On 6 April 2011 18:11, Andreas Raab <andreas.raab at gmx.de> wrote:
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> On 4/6/2011 18:03, Igor Stasenko wrote:
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>> On 6 April 2011 15:53, Dimitry Golubovsky<golubovsky at gmail.com>  wrote:
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>>> 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..
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> 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

yeah.. but i don't remember details , so...

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> The result was the Android VM:
> http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/pipermail/vm-dev/2010-January/003684.html
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> Cheers,
>  - Andreas
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Best regards,
Igor Stasenko AKA sig.


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