Advertising VM features (was Re: [Pharo-project] [Vm-dev] Running tests for auto-built Cog VMs)

[Frank Shearar]

On 2011/03/18 10:41, Igor Stasenko wrote:
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> Yeah , yeah..
> Maybe people was not aware that tests are running for couple of months now.
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> But my question if we need something in addition.
> For instance, threaded FFI. How to test if it there, and if it is, how
> to test that it works ok?
> Apparently standard FFI test are not covering new threading capabilities of VM.

Is it possible to expose what a VM supports? Actually, mirrors here 
would be great - you could ask the mirror what plugins it supports, what 
special features it provides (immutability, tail call optimisation, ...).

frank

> On 18 March 2011 10:41, stephane ducasse<stephane.ducasse at gmail.com>  wrote:
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>> :)
>> In addition to running all the tests of all the subsystems of course.
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>> S.
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>>> In Pharo there is:
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>>>        Tests-VM
>>>                        BecomeTest
>>>                        IslandVMTweaksTestCase
>>>        Tests-Finalization
>>>                        ObjectFinalizerTest
>>>        Tests-ObjectsAsMethods
>>>                        TestObjectsAsMethods
>>>
>>> .. and they are run every day at least once (in 1.2, 1.3 and before 1.2 was stable even 1.1) since a couple of months.
>>>
>>> e.g.
>>>
>>>        https://pharo-ic.lille.inria.fr/hudson/job/Pharo%20Core%201.2/lastCompletedBuild/testReport/Tests.VM/
>>>
>>>
>>>        Marcus
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