[Vm-dev] Cog stack VM on ARM?

[Eliot Miranda]

On Fri, Apr 5, 2013 at 7:41 AM, Casey Ransberger
<casey.obrien.r at gmail.com>wrote:

>
> I'm running on a Rasp Pi-B. The interpreter VM currently leaves some stuff
> to be desired on this device. I know that Tim has been working to improve
> BitBlt's perf in the interpreter. I'm interested in seeing if I can milk a
> bit of rocket sauce from the stack orientation and generation scavenging GC
> while he's doing that.
>
> A few questions:
>
> - Does the stack VM depend on anything that isn't ARM-happy right now?
>

Not that I know of.  John McIntosh and Dimitry Golubovsky report success
with the Stack VM on ARM devices (iPhone & Droid).

- Does the Linux limitation around multiple thread prioritization apply to
> the stack VM?
>

Yes.  The Stack VM also needs a heartbeat.  So on linux one should derive
the heartbeat from an interval timer, until such time as the pthreads
implementation is fixed.   we live in hope.


>
> - Where should I get sources for a current stack VM?
>

you can check-out the Cog stack sources (
http://www.squeakvm.org/svn/squeak/branches/Cog/stacksrc) but you'd want to
get the platform tree or all the sources from Dimitry.  I think his sources
are on code.google.com somewhere.

HTH


>
> Sorry if I've asked these questions before! I can be a bit of a
> scatterbrain sometimes, and I burn way too many cycles on "is this what I
> should be doing right now?" Sometimes I have to trace the circle a few
> times to figure out where I am in it.
>
> Thanks in advance for any advice that's offered.
>
> --
> Casey Ransberger
>
>


-- 
best,
Eliot
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/pipermail/vm-dev/attachments/20130406/e432854a/attachment-0001.htm