On Sun, 6 Feb 2011, Eliot Miranda wrote:
Hi All,
new Cog VMs are available, SimpleStackBasedCogit @
http://www.mirandabanda.org/files/Cog/VM/VM.r2359/ and
StackToRegisterMappingCogit @
http://www.mirandabanda.org/files/Cog/VM/VM.r2361. I think the new code
generator is ready for prime time now. I fixed a number of bugs over the
past three weeks and we're now using the StackToRegisterMappingCogit
internally at Teleplace. There's still work to be done merging plugins and
details with the standard VMs but I hope that r2361 is production-ready as
far as core Smalltalk execution is concerned.
Enjoy.
Thanks, StackToRegisterMappingCogit is really impressive. IIRC for the
4.1.1 VM Andreas fixed something about ImageSegment loading which is
missing from the CogVMs. It would be good to have that fix, because now
arrayOfRoots is nil when I'm trying to load an ImageSegment. It's not
urgent at all, because I could work the problem around using the new
SqueakVMs which can read Cog images and have the fix.
Levente
Eliot
