[Vm-dev] RoarVM: The Manycore SqueakVM

Andreas Raab andreas.raab at gmx.de
Wed Nov 3 17:39:53 UTC 2010


On 11/3/2010 10:27 AM, Stefan Marr wrote:
> On 03 Nov 2010, at 17:57, Andreas Raab wrote:
>>> 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?
> Ehm, sorry, I do not really know where to start.
> Could you be a bit more specific with your question?

Well, I was hoping you could tell us where to start. After all you know 
more about this stuff than we do :-)

> A probably a bit too condensed overview is given in the technical section of the README.
> http://github.com/smarr/RoarVM/blob/master/README.rst

Any chance you could make versions of the referenced papers available? 
This would surely help.

cheers,
   - Andreas


More information about the Vm-dev mailing list