Hi Pharo-ites,
>
> I'm working on a port of Pharo to the Java Virtual Machine called Redline
> Smalltalk.
> (read more here: http://jamesladdcode.com/?p=323)
>> Excellent I think that having a smalltalk running on JVM is cool. Did you
>> check SqueakOnJava?
I have looked at these implementations, Bistro and others.
However, I'm wanting to get as close to native JVM Bytecode as possible.
>>Why do you want to port the compiler in Java?
>>In Java you should only implement the necessary infrastructure to run the
>>object model of Pharo (primitives
>>in particular). Then you can load Smalltalk code and you do not need
>>to compile smalltalk code in smalltalk?
A good point, but I'm not sure how that approach would allow profiling,
debugging and
integration with Java. This is outlined a little in the previous post:
http://jamesladdcode.com/?p=311
>> study little Smalltalk for example to get an idea.
Would it be sufficient to choose those classes that are also outlined in the
ANSI standard?
Rgs, James.
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