where is your code? I have a huge list of pretty cool ideas but only two hands and one life.
Stef On May 7, 2009, at 2:15 AM, stepken wrote: > Hi! > > Connecting Pharo to SUN Lively Morphic GUI: > > http://research.sun.com/projects/lively/ > > has lots of advantages: > > * decoupling of GUI and steering engine in hardware, like X-Server > from X.org > * independance of hardware and OS. > * speed - drawing canvas in SVG is implemented in C, steeting in > JAVA-Script. Google Chrome engine V8 is a ActionScript Jitter > (http://llvm.org/) and even offers OpenGL as C-lib (Khronos) -> > No > more plugin's into VM necessary for graphics, same with > vector-font libraries. > * comfort - You can develop your smalltalk software from > everywhere, > e.g. pharo vm installed at a webhoster ... or local over loopback > interface. > * Lively and Squeak Morphic mental models fit perfectly, adaption > should be really easy. Dan Ingall being one of the designers of > Lively... > * Pharo's killer applications seaside and pier also are remote > applications, also using ActionScript and browser -> why not for > graphics, morphic and etoys? > * Chrome/FireFox tends to become the standard universal > visualisation and I/O toolkit for all OS, so why not being > lightyears ahead by consequently implementing the GUI in Chrome/ > FF? > > few disadvantages: > > * sound, videostreaming, printing problematic, but easily solvable, > because FF/Chrome already have that features built in ;-) > > I'm a bit disappointed by the fact, that the squeak / pharo jitter > still > has not the expected performance impact. Elliot does a good work, but > Frank Lesser with its DNG engine is showing actually, what is > technically possible ...C-Speed for Smalltalk and ! Apple is behind > LLVM > and JAVA 6 is showing also, that C-Speed can be reached in full > OO-Languages, see the "language shootout". By the way: ActionScript > is a > full OO-language, like Smalltalk. > > I really wondered, why not LLVM has become the standard jitter in > Pharo. > Power/ARM/Sparc/Intel ... processors are already supported! > > I think, any proprietary Jitter is a design fault ... > > just my 2 ct. > > Have fun, Guido Stepken > > _______________________________________________ > Pharo-project mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.gforge.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pharo-project > _______________________________________________ Pharo-project mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gforge.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pharo-project
