I have noticed that Squeak seems to do Sockets by using Delays for x
milliseconds and then waking back up to do something again.

So I tried to make a minimal Croquet like Router doing it that way
using something that was already there as the pattern and it was kind
of convoluted because it was going round and round checking on things.
 So what I was doing was going round and round checking on things
also.

Wouldn't it be better to have network interrupts happen when new data
has arrived?  Or when all the data has been sent?  Like some kind of
callback?

Could I help with this documenting?  I don't know how i might do that.
 But the VM is of interest to me.  I would like to find out about how
it all works.  I tried to join the vm-dev mailing list but didn't get
any response yet.  I don't dislike documenting things like most people
seem to.  I would like to do it if i could somehow come to understand
what is going on in the VM.

On 10/15/08, John M McIntosh <johnmci at smalltalkconsulting.com> wrote:
> Thank you for the feedback, there is some assumptions that people
> looking at the docs would understand what sqInt is.
> However in reflection I do need to go back and add more details about
> the parms being passed, especially when
> they are data coming directly from oops objects in object space.
>
> As for the explanation of each function, I'll see about adding  more
> words. I currently have another twenty api calls documented, but yet not
> placed on the wiki,  and there are a couple of more dozen yet to
> document.
>
> The other task is to document the VM callback routines, not sure when
> that will occur.
>
> Lastly I"m not sure what you mean by "Are interrupts supported?"
>
>
> On Oct 15, 2008, at 9:17 PM, Kjell Godo wrote:
>
>> What is sqInt? signed quad Int?
>> Could you put an explanation of what each function is supposed to do?
>> Are interrupts supported?
>>
>>
>> On 10/15/08, Ken Causey <ken at kencausey.com> wrote:
>>> Thank you, thank you, thank you, and Thank You!  This sort of stuff
>>> may
>>> not be of interest to everyone, but when you need it you really
>>> need it
>>> and it can be truly invaluable.  And I know compiling it and
>>> putting it
>>> into a readable form is not the most enjoyable task.  I really
>>> appreciate your making the effort.
>>>
>>> Thank you,
>>>
>>> Ken
>>>
>>> On Tue, 2008-10-14 at 20:19 -0700, John M McIntosh wrote:
>>>> As part of my work on the iPhone VM I've started updating the
>>>> isqueak.org site with documentation on the APIs that a VM maintainer
>>>> needs to supply when building a new VM,
>>>>
>>>> A starting set of pages is found at:
>>>>
>>>> http://isqueak.org/PlatformVMAPI
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>
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