Anthony Hannan wrote:
Hello Squeakers,
I'm pleased to announce that I'm finally finished with the latest version of VI4. You can get it from its usual place at http://minnow.cc.gatech.edu/squeak/VI4. It has been rewritten and cleaned up and should be very stable.
Good news!
Once other image format changes are incorporated (if any) and once it is approved for a future Jitter, it should be ready for prime time.
Hopefully its prime time won't be delayed too much for a Jitter coming sometime in the future (I'm speaking for Linux here).
The Interpreter still operates directly on the process stack object, but hooks have been provided so the process stack can be internalized by the VM if desired. See the aboutVI4 method comment for more details.
0 tinyBenchmarks reports a 30% increase in bytecode speed and a 75% increase in send speed.
Enjoy! Anthony
Thanks for your work,
Greetings,
Stephan
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