[Vm-dev] Building Pharo VM on Mountain Lion

Hey!

I am ... deep into VM building at the moment. Just wanted to see if there are other people out there with some insights they might share.

I am currently using the Pharo VM setup (generator.image, cmake etc) and I am creating my own config class etc, I like the framework in general.

Now, with Xcode 5 (or actually earlier) there is no other compiler than LLVM clang. And yes, it does compile the VM! Hooray. Also, the current Pharo VM is Cocoa based AFAICT, which is also neat.

Performance is on the other hand not... superb. It seemed to be slightly slower than a very old Cog. I was hoping for "a bit faster" since Cog has evolved quite a bit.

Now I am trying to use GCC 4.9 (using brew). Anyone tried this?

regards, Göran