Nice presentation! I look forward to Stef's annotations and the video. One thing jumped off the page: the intersection of OpenGL, Sig and NativeBoost. It says "done on Windows" which I *hope* means that Linux and Mac are planned??? Being able to embed 3D worlds in "normal" desktop software would be huge (virtual reality/visualization, simulation, etc.).
Question: does this suggest that NativeBoost should advance in the FFI roadmap? AFAIK, I do not care whether FFI, Alien or NativeBoost becomes the first complete FFI solution for us. I mostly want to see callbacks and some level of multi-threading. It would be nice if existing FFI method definitions continued to work, but that's negotiable. On threads, the most important objective is to be able to call into a library without blocking the entire image. If callbacks are not possible from such a function, I could learn to live with that - it's more than we have now. If allowed, I would expect that callbacks would be limited to the calling Process in some way. One could/should use queues, semaphores or deferred actions to make things felt in the UI. Bill ________________________________________ From: [email protected] [[email protected]] on behalf of Stéphane Ducasse [[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, November 08, 2011 4:54 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Pharo-project] Slides Pharo talk Smalltalks I should release my annotated version because it explains the vision behind each item… Should fish it. On Nov 8, 2011, at 8:35 PM, Sven Van Caekenberghe wrote: > > On 08 Nov 2011, at 18:25, Marcus Denker wrote: > >> Here are the Slides of the Pharo talk at Smalltalks2011: >> >> PDF: >> http://www.marcusdenker.de/talks/11Smalltalks/2011-Smalltalks-Denker-Pharo.pdf >> SlideShare: http://www.slideshare.net/MarcusDenker/pharo-one-year-later >> >> All talks where filmed, so there will be a video later at >> http://www.fast.org.ar/smalltalks2011 > > Beautiful and cool slides, as always, Marcus. > > Yes the Pharo community did a lot of work this passed year, and the future > looks really exciting ! > > It feels good to be part of this. > > Thx for sharing. > > Sven > > > >
