[Vm-dev] Re: [squeak-dev] [Pharo-dev] New Cog VMs available

[Eliot Miranda]

Thanks Doug!

On Thu, Mar 12, 2015 at 9:38 AM, Douglas McPherson <djm1329 at san.rr.com>
wrote:

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> On Mar 12, 2015, at 00:59, Douglas McPherson <djm1329 at san.rr.com> wrote:
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> I’ve also updated ARMv7 v3 and spur stack VMs.
>
> Note:
> I built the v3 and spur VMs on my new RPi2, which has a quad-core ARMv7.
> As Tim has already pointed out, these work even when building with
> FAST_BITBLT enhancements enabled. The cool thing is they also work on the
> BeagleBone Black ARMv7 (but building on the BBB with FAST_BITBLT enabled
> resulted in a segfault at image startup .. no idea why). And they appear to
> work on the older ARMv6 RPi too, so I’ll suspend building the v6 versions
> unless they’re needed. I haven’t tested on the Parallella yet.
>
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> The new ARMv7 builds are also confirmed to work on Parallella.
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> Doug
>
> On Mar 11, 2015, at 22:41, Eliot Miranda <eliot.miranda at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> ...in http://www.mirandabanda.org/files/Cog/VM/VM.r3268/
>
> CogVM binaries as per VMMaker.oscog-eem.1088/r3268
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> Squeak 5.0 release candidate.
>
> Speed up normalize methods in LargeIntegersPlugin
> by cacheing result of firstIndexableField.
>
> Simplify integer conversion routines by adding byteSizeOfBytes: which
> assumes
> argument is byte indexable (as LargeIntegers are).  Make sure integer
> conversion
> routines consistently answer 0 on failure.  Use 4-byte access where
> possible.
>
> Remove use of popInteger in AsFloat and integer comparison primitives
> (popStack
> idiom is inefficient since multiplke writes as opposed to the single write
> in
> the pop:thenPush: idiom).
>
> Revise SpurMemoryManager>>isClassOfNonImm:equalTo:compactClassIndex: for
> better dead code elimination.
> --
> best,
> Eliot
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best,
Eliot
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