2010/4/14 James Ladd <[email protected]>: > Hi All, > > As I continue to translate Pharo to Java as part of the Redline project I > wonder, > what is the minimum set of classes and methods I need to implement?
...it probably depends on what image you want to run. Are you going to bootstrap or trace an image by hand, or reuse one that already exists? > I ask this because when I go through all the methods in Object I see a lot > that > I don't think I need to enable the Compiler to work. > > Would it be ok to just include those classes and methods that are defined in > the Smalltalk-80 Language and it implementation (Blue) book, and the > primitives? ...if you wanted to run a Smalltalk-80 image, i guess the answer would be yes. do you have one? for ideas you could also look at Ian Piumarta's Cola work [1], which has a st-80 class library [2] and an example VM [3]. I haven't looked at it for a while, but you see in the svn view a familiar looking mini.image. cheers, Mike [1] http://piumarta.com/software/cola/ [2] http://piumarta.com/svn2/idst/trunk/object/st80/ [3] http://piumarta.com/svn2/idst/trunk/object/examples/sqvm/ _______________________________________________ Pharo-project mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gforge.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pharo-project
