[Vm-dev] Re: Marking the Squeak 5.1 release

[Eliot Miranda]

Hi Fabio,

On Sun, Sep 25, 2016 at 12:10 PM, Fabio Niephaus <lists at fniephaus.com>
wrote:

> Hi Eliot,
>
> I've created a GitHub release for 201608171728 (see [1]) which is
> considered to be stable. Feel free to add a changelog if you have some
> time. You can find all commits after r3732 at [2].
>

Thanks, will do.


> Is there any particular milestone for the next release?
>

Looking through my emails I see the following for Squeak 6.0:

"For 6.0 I'm hoping we will do

- the Sista bytecode set (with backwards compatibility support for the
existing set).  This gives us 32k literals,
- FullBlockClosure, which means I depended method objects for blocks, and
hence (slightly) faster block activation
- read-only objects and hence read-only literals

These three provide the necessary support for the image-level Scorch
adaptive optimiser.  This will be demonstrated at ESUG in Prague and
productized by next year"

Clément and I have already put the byte code set and full block support
into the latest 32-bit Spur VM source.  I should remember to put these into
the 64-bit ones too.  I think Clément has added read-only-object support to
the Pharo VM.  The Squeak VM will follow soon.

So yes, these three, Sista Bytecode Set as secondary byte code set,
FullBlockClosure support and read-only-object support are the major items
for the next release.



> Best,
> Fabio
>
> [1] https://github.com/OpenSmalltalk/opensmalltalk-vm/
> releases/tag/201608171728
> [2] https://github.com/OpenSmalltalk/opensmalltalk-vm/
> compare/r3732...201608171728
>

cheers,
Eliot


>
> --
>
> On Fri, Sep 23, 2016 at 12:16 AM Fabio Niephaus <lists at fniephaus.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi Eliot,
>> I am currently traveling, but I'm happy to take care of this next week.
>> The procedure is really simple: basically you need to create a Git tag
>> [1] which you can then turn into a GitHub release, or you can just do all
>> of this in one step using GitHub's UI (see [2]).
>>
>> Best,
>> Fabio
>>
>> [1] https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Git-Basics-Tagging#Creating-Tags
>> [2] https://help.github.com/articles/creating-releases/
>>
>> On Thu, Sep 22, 2016 at 11:38 PM Eliot Miranda <eliot.miranda at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi All, Hi Fabio,
>>>
>>>    if one looks at the Releases tab on https://github.com/OpenSmal
>>> ltalk/opensmalltalk-vm it says there is only one release, the r3732
>>> release from August when we moved to github.  Can we mark the 5.1 release
>>> as a second release?  How is this done?
>>>
>>> _,,,^..^,,,_
>>> best, Eliot
>>>
>>


-- 
_,,,^..^,,,_
best, Eliot
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