[Vm-dev] Squeak Port for Android: Update

[Mariano Martinez Peck]

On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 12:37 AM, Dimitry Golubovsky
<golubovsky at gmail.com>wrote:

> Mariano,
>
> Mariano Peck wrote:
>
> > The fork of the adroid VM is from the Interpreter VM, isn't it ?
>
> Yes, as much as I can tell.
>
> > Have you ever consider or have in mind to adapt the Cog StackVM ?  I
> > remember John saying that this improved performance in the iPhone.
>
> This might be a direction for future work. But not a small thing, I expect.
>
> BTW as you are (I suppose) looking closely at Cog internals, do you
> see where the event loop is, and how to replace it with an external
> queue handler?
>

I know where it is, but I have no idea how to replace it.
The loop is in the metho #interpret.
For Cog is in StackInterpreter >> interpret


>
> > Just curiosity...apart from changing the interpreter loop, does this VM
> > require more changes in the "VMMaker part" ? because I guess  most of the
> > fork is in the platform code.
>
> Since I haven't seen the Slang sources (I have no idea where they are)
> of the Event VM, I cannot tell much.
>

It's a pity if we cannot get the VMMaker :(


>
> Thanks.
>
> --
> Dimitry Golubovsky
>
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>



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