[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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