[Vm-dev] RoarVM: The Manycore SqueakVM

[Andreas Raab]

On 11/3/2010 6:13 AM, Stefan Marr wrote:
> We are happy to announce, now officially, RoarVM: the first single-image
> manycore virtual machine for Smalltalk.

Congrats! That's a great step forward.

> RoarVM is based on the work of David Ungar and Sam S. Adams at IBM Research.
> The port to x86 multicore systems was done by me. They open-sourced their VM,
> formerly know as Renaissance VM (RVM), under the Eclipse Public License [1].
> Official announcement of the IBM source code release:
>    http://soft.vub.ac.be/~smarr/rvm-open-source-release/
>
> The source code of the RoarVM has been released as open source to enable the
> Smalltalk community to evaluate the ideas and possibly integrate them into
> existing systems. So, the RoarVM is meant to experiment with Smalltalk systems
> on multi- and manycore machines.

Can you give us a high-level overview about what "the trick" is? I.e., 
which approach did you take to make this possible?

> If the community does not object, we would like to occupy the
> vm-dev at lists.squeakfoundation.org mailinglist for related discussions. So, if
> you run into any trouble while experimenting with the RoarVM, do not hesitate
> to report any problems and ask any questions.

Sounds great. Thanks for sharing.

Cheers,
   - Andreas