On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 7:14 AM, Lawson English <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > On 3/7/12 2:36 AM, Igor Stasenko wrote: > >> On 7 March 2012 08:36, Lawson English<[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> [...] >>> >>> Igor, you're familiar with f-script? >>> >>> http://www.fscript.org/ >>> >>> not really, why asking? >> I know there's plenty of alternatives.. >> And how do you see f-script could help us? >> It is objective-c (or Mac ) oriented. If you would want to use >> different platform , then what? >> >> >> I was pointing to f-script as an example of an existing embedded > smalltalk. > > The biggest issue with an embedded Smalltalk, IMHO, isn't the VM but the > libraries: what do you keep and why? > IMIO that's not the issue. The libraries you keep and why are those libraries that the embedder wants to use, or that support the libraries that the embedder wants to use. The VM very much determines the efficiency and complexity of such an interface. Issues such as does the garbage collector support pinning, or does the interface support call-ins from multiple threads, very much affect the design of an interface, and hence its ease of use. L. > -- best, Eliot
