[ANN] Magma release 42

[Igor Stasenko]

Great, as always :)
I am waiting for the days , when Eliot release the JIT,
so Magma could compete with analoguous OODB implementations (uncluding
GemStone) and beat them by speed ! :)


2009/8/21 Ramiro Diaz Trepat <ramiro at diaztrepat.name>:
> Great !
> Thanks for your work Chris !
> Cheers
>
>
> r.
>
> 2009/8/20 Miguel Enrique Cobá Martinez <miguel.coba at gmail.com>
>>
>> El jue, 20-08-2009 a las 13:54 -0500, Chris Muller escribió:
>> > I am pleased to announce a new release of Magma.  Release 42 brings
>> > unprecedented scale and availability of persistent domain models to
>> > Squeak users.  In particular, a single logical repository can now be
>> > served from multiple servers simultaneously, each hosting their own
>> > physical copy.  To maintain consistency, just one server receives
>> > writes and broacasts commit-records to "warm-backup" servers
>> > asynchronously.  The warm-backups ensure to keep themselves constantly
>> > up to date automatically.
>> >
>> > Individual servers in the "Node", even the primary, can be brought
>> > off-line and back on-line without disruption to clients.  Maintenance
>> > routines such as full-backup and compression may optionally be run
>> > while a repository is off-line, resulting in true 24x7 operation with
>> > no performance degradation due to maintenance jobs.  The more physical
>> > copies of a repository that are brought on-line, the more read-scale
>> > the overall Node will provide.  For more details, see:
>> >
>> >   http://wiki.squeak.org/squeak/6101
>> >
>> > Scales up as well as down:  Magma retains it's existing ability to
>> > scale an existing, large, multi-user repository _down_ to a single
>> > user on a single laptop easily, without a single change to application
>> > code.  This can be very useful for diagnosing production issues
>> > without disturbing production.
>> >
>> > 42 one-click loads cleanly into 3.9, 3.10 and Pharo, and is supported
>> > on those images.
>> >
>>
>> Pharo!
>>
>> I have to say thank you very much Chris, for the effort that you and
>> Stuart have done. I am surprised that the release 42 already has support
>> for Pharo, I thought we would have to wait for the next version.
>>
>> In this moment am downloading it and testing my app with it.
>>
>> What a great news!
>>
>> Cheers
>>
>> > For now, the Magma home page still resides at:
>> >
>> >   http://wiki.squeak.org/squeak/2665
>> >
>> >  - Chris
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