Hi David,
    I have been tardy in leaving a blog post and important updates
unpublished while I've worked on the stack VM and a profiler.  I'll try
extra hard this week to update the web site and the code now I have an
external user (very exciting!!).

Thanks!!

On Sun, Nov 2, 2008 at 6:31 PM, David T. Lewis <lewis at mail.msen.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 06:14:51PM -0700, Eliot Miranda wrote:
> > Hi All,
> >     I've made a significant step today in making available the first cut
> of
> > my closure scheme.  There is a new blog post on
> > www.mirandabanda.org/cogblogabout the closure bytecodes which at the
> > end includes a pointer to the
> > bootstrap @ www.mirandabanda.org/files/Cog/Closures0808/Bootstrap/.  The
> > bootstrap has been tested on internal Qwaq images, and on Croquet 1.0 and
> > Squeak 3.9.  I'd love to hear of other ports, e.g. to 3.10 and to Spoon.
> >  I'm interested in bug reports (I haven't yet tested eToys) and code
> reviews
> > and tying up loose ends (for example I broke decompile with temp names
> and
> > haven't fixed it).
>
> I can confirm building a VM from the ClosureVMBootstrap.1.cs change set
> with
> SqueakSource VMMaker-dtl.104 (non-Croquet) on Squeak 3.8 on Linux. It works
> fine and I see no issues with backward compatibility for existing images.
>
> I am attaching the changes that were required to merge ClosureVMBootstrap
> with
> a non-Qwaq VMMaker. The changes were as follows:
>
> - Add missing ClassBlockClosure var to ObjectMemory
> - Merge class and instance var defs in Interpreter
> - Remove large integer stuff from #initializePrimitiveTable (is this for
> Croquet?)
> - Delete (now unused) primitiveObsoleteIndexedPrimitive
>
> The ClassBlockClosure definition in ObjectMemory was probably an accidental
> omission from the ClosureVMBootstrap change set, and the remainder of the
> changes are a straightforward merge for a different flavor of VMMaker.
>
> I have not yet progressed as far as getting the closure compiler loaded,
> but the closure-enabled VM seems to be trouble-free and fully backward
> compatible.
>
> Dave
>
>
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