[ANN] New Version of VI4 (block closures)

Stephan Rudlof squeak-dev at lists.squeakfoundation.org
Wed Oct 23 14:31:48 UTC 2002


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
-- 
Stephan Rudlof (sr at evolgo.de)
   "Genius doesn't work on an assembly line basis.
    You can't simply say, 'Today I will be brilliant.'"
    -- Kirk, "The Ultimate Computer", stardate 4731.3




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