Cool news. I'll try it out soon. I found this paper on Lowcode to share with other curious people... http://www.esug.org/data/ESUG2016/IWST/Papers/IWST_2016_paper_16.pdf
A few questions from that... > our extended instructions do not perform run time type checking on their > inputs, so they do not have the overhead associated to dynamic message > lookup." What happens if the wrong type object is passed to a lowcode method? > Unfortunately, when we did this work the 64 bits version of Spur was > incomplete and in an experimental state [and we were] not able to compare the > performance difference for floating point arithmetics against a Smalltalk > with support for immediate floating point objects Have you been able to do this performance comparison since the paper was written? cheers -ben On Fri, Feb 24, 2017 at 9:02 AM, Ronie Salgado <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello, > > Finally I am glad to announce a first release of Woden 2. I made a hopefully > simplified process for loading Woden 2 out of the box. > > For loading and testing Woden 2, follow the instructions at: > > https://github.com/ronsaldo/woden2 > > In this release, I am not loading the level editor by default because it > depends on an outdated version of Bloc. Until I fix the dependency problem > of the Level editor, it will remain unusable. > > Because Woden 2 requires Metal on OS X, it requires 64 bits on OS X, which > can be unstable. This is tested on OS X El Capitan. I do not know whether it > will work or not on OS X Sierra. > > Best regards, > Ronie
