2010/7/29 Janko Mivšek <[email protected]>

> Hi guys,
>
> I would prepare a separate Pharo-Cog-Experimental one-clicks for now, to:
>
> - encourage Cog usage and discovering all bugs and side effects, which
>  will:
> - let the Cog become production ready more quickly, but it:
> - won't mislead people to consider Cog as production ready, because
>  such unintential misleading can put Cog unfairly in a bad light.
>

that a great approach Janko.

thanks,
Eliot


>
> Best regards
> Janko
>
> On 29. 07. 2010 10:45, Mariano Martinez Peck wrote:
> > Hi folks. Hope Eliot is reading this thread.
> >
> > It is time to think in Pharo 1.2 and we need to discuss if we want to
> > have CogVM as the standard Pharo VM.
> >
> > Most of us have tried it and found it incredible fast. So it would be
> > very good to take advantage of it.  But I think there are a couple of
> > things to be discussed:
> >
> > 1) Cog VM seems to be aimed for x86 and 32 bits. You can read Eliot
> quotes:
> > "The Cog VM is a just-in-time compiler that currently supports only x86
> >
> > No effort has been made to maintain 64-bit compatibility.  Apologies,
> > this was unaffordable."
> >
> > So...how much important is this for us? do we care? and if we want to do
> > it, is it "doable" ?  is it less doable than the normal squeak VM ?
> >
> > I really would like to have 64bits VM + 64bits images in a near
> > future...but hat's just my thoguhts.
> >
> > 2) The status of the external plugins. Are they working with Cog ?  Not
> > only the "core plugings" but FFI, OSProcess (I read some problems with
> > it), TrueType, etc...
> >
> > 3) Is it stable for production use?  For example, I read that with
> > seaside there are some crashes.
> >
> > 4) Depends on heroes. I never liked this idea. It has nothing to do with
> > Eliot. He is very cool and helpful. But I wonder, do we understand the
> > new VM and the changes? are we able to handle and fix it even without
> > eliot ?
> >
> > 5) Integration to VMMaker. I saw that they started to merge cog
> > (actually, I think only stack vm?) to the trunk of VMMaker. This is
> > really good news. I hope everything is there and merged.
> >
> > 6) Binaries. It seems the official released didn't come with binaries.
> > So we should compile it for each OS.
> >
> >
> > Ok..that's all my thoughts. I would really like to have a discussion
> > here and see what to do.....grrrrrr you are all in holidays, aren't you?
> > hahah
> >
> > cheers
> >
> > Mariano
> >
> >
> >
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