[squeak-dev] [ANN] OpenSmalltalk VM 2022 released (tag 202205110711)

Thiede, Christoph Christoph.Thiede at student.hpi.uni-potsdam.de
Thu May 19 13:57:48 UTC 2022


Ah, I remember that interesting project! I just was confused by the name, "vectors" could also have meant something like optimized array processing or data-parallel computation ... Thanks for the explanation, and keep up the good work! :-)


Best,

Christoph

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Von: Bruce O'Neel <bruce.oneel at pckswarms.ch>
Gesendet: Donnerstag, 19. Mai 2022 13:36:12
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Betreff: Re: [squeak-dev] [ANN] OpenSmalltalk VM 2022 released (tag 202205110711)

Hi,

This came from Juan Vuletich who is one of the primary people for Cuis Smalltalk.  Cuis uses the same VM as Squeak but the image is different.  As a result most of the discussion happens on Cuis mailing lists etc.

Juan gave a good presentation to the UK Smalltalk User's group last year and you can find the videos here.

Vector Graphics in Cuis Smalltalk - Wednesday 31st March (uksmalltalk.org)<https://www.uksmalltalk.org/2021/03/vector-graphics-in-cuis-smalltalk.html>

The main website is here - Cuis-Smalltalk | Proudly developed by Juan Vuletich and the Cuis community.<http://www.cuis-smalltalk.org/>

cheers

bruce


On 2022-05-19T13:10:15.000+02:00, <christoph.thiede at student.hpi.uni-potsdam.de> wrote:
That's great news!

> - Adds VectorEnginePlugin

Is there an easy answer to the question what that's good for? After some googling and searching on the mailing lists, I did not find any. :-)

Best,
Christoph

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On 2022-05-11T12:03:49+02:00, marcel.taeumel at hpi.de<mailto:marcel.taeumel at hpi.de> wrote:

> Hi all!
>
> We just released the next version of the OpenSmalltalk VM.
>
> Please find the binaries here:
> https://github.com/OpenSmalltalk/opensmalltalk-vm/releases/tag/202205110711 [https://github.com/OpenSmalltalk/opensmalltalk-vm/releases/tag/202205110711]
>
> (see VMMaker.oscog-mt.3184 and update.oscog-mt.6.mcm)
>
> That version will be used in the upcoming Squeak 6.0 and also updated
> bundles for Squeak 5.3. And probably in upcoming Cuis releases. :-)
>
> Here is an attempt of a change log (since 2020):
> - Adds ARMv8/Aarch64/ARM64 JIT incl. support for Apple M1
> - Adds "fast C primitives" via #FastCPrimitiveFlag
>
> - Adds support for catching exceptions in FFI callouts
> - Adds #primitiveScreenScaleFactor (for DPI-aware images)
> - Adds primitives 568 and 578 complementing 88 (primitiveSuspend)
> - Adds #primitiveMultipleBytecodeSetsActive to update image format for SistaV1
> - Adds VectorEnginePlugin
> - Fixes regressions in ARMv6 support
> - Fixes performance regressions of -metal and -opengl backends on macOS
> - Fixes -core-graphics backend on macOS
> - Fixes Retina scaling on macOS, i.e., support "backing scale factor"
> - Fixes primitive 126 to fail on graphics backends w/o composition buffer
> - Fixes regressions in vm-display-fbdev on Linux
> - Fixes time sync (e.g., for DST) on Windows
> - Fixes UDP binding on Windows
>
> I am sure that I forgot something especially in plugin code. Please expand on this.
>
> BIG THANKS to everybody who has worked on this release! Personally, I would like
> to thank Eliot, who is a great software architect who keeps on making the OSVM
> faster with every commit. Thank you!
>
> Best,
> Marcel (on behalf of the OSVM core dev team)
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