[Vm-dev] About Cocoa VMs

Eliot Miranda eliot.miranda at gmail.com
Tue Jul 12 23:43:06 UTC 2011


On Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 4:39 PM, Gary Dunn <garydunnhi at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> Will this work with PowerPC, or only Intel Macs?
>

Currently the Cog JITs only have an x86 code generator.  Writing a PPC
version would be a fun project for anyone with low-level PPC smarts.


>
> On Fri, Jul 8, 2011 at 3:05 AM, Igor Stasenko <siguctua at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Hello everyone.
> >
> > I'd like to ask you to try and use the recent VMs built by Esteban.
> >
> > We all understand that it may not fully functional and could have some
> issues.
> > But the point is, that the only way to discover glitches is to try it.
> > Because if we wait till Esteban deliver perfect VM, it may never happen.
> > Without people who testing it and providing feedback, it will simply
> won't work.
> >
> > So, Mac owners, lets help Esteban to bring us new shiny toy and try
> > using newly built VMs and give feedback.
> >
> > The VMs i am talking about is located here:
> > - Cog JIT
> >  https://pharo-ic.lille.inria.fr/hudson/view/Cog/job/Cog-Mac-Cocoa/
> > - Stack VM (no JIT)
> >  https://pharo-ic.lille.inria.fr/hudson/view/Cog/job/StackVM-Mac-Carbon/
> >
> > For issues, you can use cog issue tracker
> > (http://code.google.com/p/cog/issues/list), or vm-dev mailing list.
> >
> > Lets not wait, but help in a form, which we can. After all, that's the
> > only way to ensure that in future we will have good VM.
> >
> >
> > --
> > Best regards,
> > Igor Stasenko AKA sig.
> >
>
>
>
> --
> Gary Dunn
> Honolulu
>



-- 
best,
Eliot
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