[Vm-dev] Re: [Pharo-users] Get "Invalid utf8 input detected" error for a filename

[stephane ducasse]

> 
> Clearly we need to do a careful merge of the http://www.squeakvm.org/svn/squeak/branches/Cog/platforms tree with http://squeakvm.org/svn/squeak/trunk/platforms tree.  There are important improvements from Cog:
> - time based on 64-bit microseconds
> - better crash/logging stack backtrace reporting
> - concurrent lock-free external semaphore signalling
> - threaded stdio
> - vm version info
> - others?

Elliot do you know if any of these issues include the fix that igor sent long time ago about the semaphore
for event input (because it is missing on windows) and with it we will be able to remove the polling behavior for events.

Stef