[Vm-dev] informations about pharo'VM

[Clément Bera]

That too:
https://clementbera.wordpress.com/2014/06/02/squeak-pharo-vm-documentation-links/

On Mon, Apr 3, 2017 at 6:30 PM, Ben Coman <btc at openinworld.com> wrote:

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> On Tue, Apr 4, 2017 at 5:59 AM, Paul DeBruicker <pdebruic at gmail.com>
> wrote:
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>> The blue book
>> http://stephane.ducasse.free.fr/FreeBooks/BlueBook/Bluebook.pdf
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>> and all the info on this blog should get you started
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>> http://www.mirandabanda.org/cogblog/about-cog/
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>> michel sangala wrote
>> > Good morning, i want to know all about pharo'VM, books and notes, i also
>> > want to know differences between pharo'VM and JavaVM, thanks a lot
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> At its most concise:
> * #become:
> * resumable exceptions
> * message passing
> * its just an execution engine
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> The links below expand on these, except the last which I'll expand on
> briefly.
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> IIUC, the JVM class libraries are often considered part of the VM.  With
> Smalltalk, the class libraries are part of *your* Image, written in
> Smalltalk (you have direct access to understanding and debugging them in
> the context of your running application).  The Pharo VM provides only:
> * bytecode interpreter
> * JIT bytecode to machine code compilation
> * memory allocation
> * primitives hiding platform differences
> * primitives accelerating speed sensitive activities
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> https://gbracha.blogspot.com.au/2009/07/miracle-of-become.html
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> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/18231382/java-equivalent-of-smalltalks-
> become
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> http://forum.world.st/Debugging-in-Production-
> Servers-tp4756136p4756337.html
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> http://scg.unibe.ch/archive/papers/Vran12a.pdf
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> http://swing.fit.cvut.cz/projects/stx/doc/online/english/programming/
> stForJavaGuys.html
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> https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/a0e2/5003010f1e2e3af958208ac9a540c8
> c7bc4b.pdf
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> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3102695/what-are-
> the-key-differences-between-oo-in-smalltalk-and-java
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> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5638052/is-it-really-all-about-message-
> passing-in-smalltalk/5638259
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> http://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/
> 140602/what-is-message-passing-in-oo
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> https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-difference-between-
> message-passing-versus-calling-a-function-method-invocation
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> btw, note that the Pharo VM is a branding of the OpenSmalltalk-VM,
>    https://github.com/OpenSmalltalk/opensmalltalk-vm
> which is the original Squeak-VM renamed, since there are now several
> downstream consumers: Pharo, Squeak, Cuis & Newspeak.
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> cheers -ben
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> P.S. just an aside for anyone unfamiliar with reading Smalltalk syntax...
> http://www2.ing.unipi.it/~a009435/issw/extra/readingSmalltalk.pdf
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