[Vm-dev] Cog: A question about: setInterruptCheckChain()

Igor Stasenko siguctua at gmail.com
Wed Sep 29 21:02:03 UTC 2010


On 29 September 2010 22:40, Bert Freudenberg <bert at freudenbergs.de> wrote:
>
> On 29.09.2010, at 20:53, Nicolas Cellier wrote:
>
>>  When I
>> contemplate all the unecessary complex knowledge from those beautiful
>> configure/cmake scripts and macros, I'm not convinced all this cruft
>> will be easier to modify in Smalltalk than it is in C world.
>
> You still have to know C and the C libraries to do anything at that level. Using FFI does not buy you anything in this regard.
>
> While other languages see themselves as C extensions / glue languages and happily expose C constructs directly, IMHO Squeak should not depend on FFI, but use proper VM abstractions. Supporting FFI is good, depending on it, not.
>

My intent is to make VM flexible. Sure thing, VM should provide a
default OS-specific layer.
The pity is, that i can't alter/replace it, when using FFI.


> - Bert -
>
>



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