[Vm-dev] Old Things

[tim Rowledge]

Hi Stuart

> On 19-01-2018, at 5:21 PM, Stuart Cassoff <aa72 at bell.net> wrote:
> 
> I believe these statements are correct, please let me know otherwise:
> 
> - People were enthusiastic about Exupery ten years ago but it's dead now.

Exupery was an interesting attempt at making an in-image bytecode to machine code translator. I did show some working function but got dropped for whatever reason.

> 
> - muO is current and worth having in a collection of images.

I think this is correct. It does some pretty cool music stuff.

> 
> - The recent ver 5 release of EToys from the EToys site is the one to use and not the 2016 6.0alpha on files.squeak.org.

Almost certainly. 6.0 is in alpha and sometimes bites you.

> 
> - (from memory) Spoon became Cog which is now in Squeak.

Ooh, gosh, no. Spoon and Cog are wildly different. Craig will almost certainly be happy to point you to good places to read about Spoon, which is at least in part an attack on making incredibly small image files with the ability to load extra objects (including code, of course) at need. Cog is the dynamic translation system that makes Squeak so fast.




tim
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