Introducing Huemul

[Bert Freudenberg]

On May 25, 2007, at 22:17 , <bryce at kampjes.demon.co.uk> wrote:

> Bert Freudenberg writes:
>>> Sebastian
>>> PS: by persistant I mean a smalltalk that has it's instances
>>> "living" in a
>>> persistent medium and the VM uses the RAM of the computer as a mere
>>> cache.
>>> Based on the blue book and with some theoretical guidelines from
>>> Guille here
>>> I've was able to make a prototype of a persistent ST for business
>>> objects
>>> (it didn't persist contexts and such)
>>
>> That's how Gemstone Smalltalk works. It's got a transactional object
>> memory on disk (arbitrary size) and you can run any number of VMs on
>> that image concurrently ... pretty cool.
>
> Magma does a similar thing for Squeak.

Yeah, Magma is pretty cool, too :)

- Bert -