On 5 August 2014 17:43, Eliot Miranda <eliot.miranda at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Tue, Aug 5, 2014 at 8:13 AM, Frank Shearar <frank.shearar at gmail.com>
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>> On 5 August 2014 16:00, Eliot Miranda <eliot.miranda at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > Hi Frank,
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>> > On Aug 5, 2014, at 2:20 AM, Frank Shearar <frank.shearar at gmail.com>
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>> >> On 5 August 2014 03:49, Eliot Miranda <eliot.miranda at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >>> ...at http://www.mirandabanda.org/files/Cog/VM/VM.r3058/.
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>> >>> CogVM binaries as per VMMaker.oscog-eem.842/r3058
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>> >> I'll update CI this evening.
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>> >> Quick question - for the Linux VMs, am I correct in thinking that MT
>> >> VMs are _always_ HT? (And that on Windows they are never?)
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>> > Mac and Win VMs have only heartbeat threads.  Linux VMs have either a
>> > heartbeat thread or the ITIMER heartbeat.  If the linux archive contains
>> > "ht" it's a threaded heartbeat VM, period.  The naming is screwed up because
>> > ITIMER used to be the only option on linux.  Would changing the names so
>> > that linux ITIMER VMs were singled out be useful?
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>> Mainly I'm trying to figure out how to map "kind of VM" to a file
>> name. I just noticed that
>> http://www.mirandabanda.org/files/Cog/VM/VM.r3058/ has a cogmtlinuxht,
>> but not a cogmtlinux, VM. But there are both coglinux and coglinuxht
>> and images, so it looks like MT and HT are orthogonal switches (on
>> Linux, at least).
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> Yes.  And there is no such switch elsewhere.  And ITIMER will eventually die
> the death.

With 3063 has ITIMER died the death? (I ask because there's no
coglinux VM, only coglinuxht.)

frank

>> If they are, that's great, and I need to extend my
>> existing kind-of-VM to reflect this, because at the moment it knows
>> about :mt, :spur and :normal VMs, whereas it might need to know about
>> :mtht, :mt and :ht VMs. Make sense?
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> Yes.
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>> (https://github.com/squeak-smalltalk/squeak-ci/blob/master/lib/squeak-ci/cog.rb
>> has my horrible hacks: look at cog_location and filename for the
>> current mapping of kind-of-VM -> string.
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>> frank
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> best,
> Eliot
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