On Wed, Jul 07, 2010 at 06:01:42PM -0700, Andreas Raab wrote:
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> On 7/7/2010 3:11 PM, David T. Lewis wrote:
> >Personally, I do not have a good sense of how this should be handled.
> >I expect that we will want to keep the traditional SqueakVM alive
> >and healthy for at least a few years into the future, but I do not
> >know if it is better to merge it with the StackVM, or just let it
> >be separatedly maintained for some period of time.
>
> Eliot needs to comment on this but the intention was always to keep the
> "classic" Squeak VM working and add the context-to-stack mapping
> (StackInterpreter) and the JIT (CoInterpreter). So the real work would
> be to merge the Interpreter sources and promote any necessary changes to
> [Stack|Co]Interpreter as needed.
So possibly the common portions of Interpreter and StackInterpreter could