[Vm-dev] Squeak Port for Android: Update

[Mariano Martinez Peck]

Hi Dimitry. Congratulations for the project. It looks promising. A couple of
question:

The fork of the adroid VM is from the Interpreter VM, isn't it ?
Have you ever consider or have in mind to adapt the Cog StackVM ?  I
remember John saying that this improved performance in the iPhone.

Just curiosity...apart from changing the interpreter loop, does this VM
require more changes in the "VMMaker part" ? because I guess  most of the
fork is in the platform code.

Thanks

Mariano

On Tue, Apr 19, 2011 at 5:55 PM, Dimitry Golubovsky <golubovsky at gmail.com>wrote:

>
> Hi,
>
> I am glad to announce that the Squeak Port for Android Tablets [1] has
> reached its first milestone.
>
> Work has been done towards fixing certain usability issues such as
> better integration with Android Input Methods, access to local file
> system, etc.
>
> The pre-packaged Android application (apk, signed with debug key), and
> zipped Image file (Image, changes, sources, demo project) are
> available from the project page at Google Code.
>
> Everyone is welcome to test the application on their Android devices.
> See the TestDrive [2] Wiki page for detailed instructions. Please
> report all issues to the project's issue tracker and Wiki pages.
>
> In my case it works on Pandigital Novel 9" eReader tablet with Android
> 2.0, not rooted.
>
> PS Two things are still known to be an issue:
>
> 1. Network sockets do not function properly; they were not addressed
> at this time
> 2. Android NDK rev. 3 is still required (because of the 4.2.1
> toolchain); see [3] for some information
>
> PPS I also have been working on the presentation of this project (see
> notes and slides in the wiki). If there is any interested group of
> Smalltalk and/or Android users/developers in my area (South-eastern
> PA, US) I'd be glad to give an actual presentation.
>
> Thanks for any feedback.
>
> [1] http://code.google.com/p/squeakvm-tablet/
>
> [2] http://code.google.com/p/squeakvm-tablet/wiki/TestDrive
>
> [3] http://squeakvm-tablet.googlecode.com/hg/project/ndk-build
>
> --
> Dimitry Golubovsky
>
> Anywhere on the Web
>



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