Cuis on Spur?  Its like a powerful engine in a lightweight car.  I
can't imagine how blazing fast the UI must be.  Easy Juan, you'll
break the speed limits!  :)

On Fri, Aug 19, 2016 at 10:28 AM,  <juanlists at jvuletich.org> wrote:
> Hi Folks,
>
> I've successfully finished the Spur conversion of Cuis. I was able to merge
> all required changes to Cuis compiler and make it work in both
> ObjectMemories. Cuis is now offered in Spur and pre-Spur formats. And the
> best part is that they share 100% of the source code. There is no forking!
>
> This means that there is no extra work in maintaining both flavors. So, we
> are not leaving anyone behind. It also means that, at deployment, you might
> chose between better performance and larger memory (with Spur) or smaller
> footprint and SqueakJS compatibility (with pre-Spur).
>
> I've just updated our GitHub repo
> https://github.com/Cuis-Smalltalk/Cuis-Smalltalk-Dev . Included are
> Cuis4.2-2906-spur.image and Cuis4.2-2906.image, and, as usual, the whole
> update stream. I wrote a brief description of the Spur conversion at
> Documentation/SpurConversion.md, in case you want to reproduce it, or apply
> it to your own Cuis images.
>
> The images seem very stable. Please test them, load your code, and report
> any issues. This work was enabled by Eliot Miranda and the OpenSmalltalk
> team who develop Spur, VMMaker and the Spur bootstrap. Thank you folks! I
> also used Squeak 5 as a reference implementation of Compiler and related
> stuff. I also want to thank the greater Squeak community for it.
>
> Some cleanup is in order. The scaffolding I did for the conversion,
> including dual Compilers is still in the image. I'll be cleaning it soon.
> I'll also be able to pay a bit more attention to unrelated suggestions and
> ongoing discussion at cuis-dev at cuis-smalltalk.org
>
> Enjoy!
>
> Cheers,
>
> Juan Vuletich
> www.cuis-smalltalk.org
> https://github.com/Cuis-Smalltalk/Cuis-Smalltalk-Dev
> @JuanVuletich
>
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