Hi I asked abotu alien because at Amsterdam eliot used bird names to refer to FFI implementation. So I was thinking that building on top of Alien was a move into the future. May be you should talk with eliot.
Stef > > 64-bit FFI will work on Unix and Windows with these fixes. I have not > tried Mac, but I expect that some work would be needed. The changes > are not trivial, and will affect the plugin, the VM itself, and the > Pharo/Squeak images. > > The next big fix on our VM-team "to-do list" is to get sound working > on 64-bit platforms, and FFI will come after that. > > I do not know the status of alien now, but my understanding is that > it is limited to intel processors and 32-bit platforms. My guess is > that it would be good to fix the old FFI first because those changes > would likely have an impact on alien also. But I do not know much > about alien, so I am not the best person to say. > > Dave > > > _______________________________________________ > 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
