iMac support - Exupery

5 Jul 2009


      Bryce & Exupery-minded folks:
I am using Pharo on an iMac for an in-house project that may later  
become a commercial product. My main displeasure with Pharo right now  
is performance; it sounds like Exupery may help greatly.
With that in mind, I am willing to help with Exupery, at least in  
terms of compilation on the iMac. I must be realistic about my time: I  
won't be able to invest a block of time until November or December.  
Still, along the way, I can begin exploring and learning.
My background (which I may already have shamelessly provided on some  
squeak list): I have written a million-plus of lines of code in C,  
always with an eye on performance (we rolled our own Objective-C like  
environment in the 1980's and early 1990's to build a radiation  
treatment planning system -- the product is used widely around the  
globe today... so it works!); also, I have written several byte-code  
interpreters over the years, so I am familiar with the general  
principles. The catch: I haven't compiled a C program in over 12  
years, except for turnkey GNU products. Furthermore, my coding during  
the last 12 years has been part-time in Python (extensively), java,  
gawk, or perl, and smalltalk (during the last year or so); as a  
result, the jargon I use is ... antiquated, if not corrupted, and  
quite simply, derelict. (Add to that the fact that I often type too  
fast and hit send too quickly... )
So... where to begin? I know I recently saw a link, but if you could  
please give me some direction, I would greatly appreciate it.
Thanks,
Cam