[Vm-dev] implementing atomic operator

[Mariano Martinez Peck]

On Wed, Nov 4, 2015 at 7:34 PM, Sebastián Krynski <skrynski at gmail.com>
wrote:

>
> Hello, as I mentioned before I'm starting to implement an atomic operator
> (a swap between two variables).
> I have compiled the StackVM (at least to get started) in Ubuntu 32bits.
>

Great!!!


> A few questions:
>
> - Should I be working on generation.image while doing the implementation?
> If so, should I be running the simulated VM running another image while
> doing my tests?
>

As far as I know having a working simulator working requires quite some
effort. At least, with a Pharo image. A couple of months ago (maybe a
couple of years) there was another Argentinian which finally made the
simulator to work with Pharo 2.0. You may want to get in touch with Nicolás
Papagna Maldonado

For the developments I did I always used the "generation.image" and then
use the VM I built. I never used the simulator for real.


> - Do you think it is possible to implement the operations in Slang or
> using  #cCode:inSmalltalk:? Otherwise I will need to do it in assembler
> and inline it
>
>
Well...it depends on what you need to write exactly. Slang is quite limited
since it must be automagically translated to C. So you must be careful in
the "smalltalk" code you write with SLANG. To know more or less what you
are able to write in SLANG you could take a look to
#initializeCTranslationDictionary (at least this was some years ago).

BTW, you may want to read this: https://marianopeck.wordpress.com/tag/slang/

Cheers,




> Thanks
> Sebastián
>
>


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Mariano
http://marianopeck.wordpress.com
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