[Vm-dev] Re: [Pharo-project] new Cog VMs available

Levente Uzonyi leves at elte.hu
Tue Feb 8 19:19:40 UTC 2011


On Sun, 6 Feb 2011, Eliot Miranda wrote:

> Hi All,
>
>    new Cog VMs are available, SimpleStackBasedCogit @
> http://www.mirandabanda.org/files/Cog/VM/VM.r2359/ and
> StackToRegisterMappingCogit @
> http://www.mirandabanda.org/files/Cog/VM/VM.r2361.  I think the new code
> generator is ready for prime time now.  I fixed a number of bugs over the
> past three weeks and we're now using the StackToRegisterMappingCogit
> internally at Teleplace.  There's still work to be done merging plugins and
> details with the standard VMs  but I hope that r2361 is production-ready as
> far as core Smalltalk execution is concerned.
>
> Enjoy.

Thanks, StackToRegisterMappingCogit is really impressive. IIRC for the 
4.1.1 VM Andreas fixed something about ImageSegment loading which is 
missing from the CogVMs. It would be good to have that fix, because now 
arrayOfRoots is nil when I'm trying to load an ImageSegment. It's not 
urgent at all, because I could work the problem around using the new 
SqueakVMs which can read Cog images and have the fix.


Levente

>
>
> Eliot
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