On Mar 27, 2012, at 6:35 PM, Stéphane Ducasse wrote:
>
>> First, here's a little background about myself. I'm an academic researcher
>> in human-computer interaction and educational technology. I've been
>> programming in Smalltalk since the early days of Squeak. For those who
>> remember, I wrote Swiki.
>
> I do :)
me too. I think we even met a loong time ago... at ACM1 or OOPSLA...
>> Is there some sort of magic bullet for addressing this? Cairo? Does anyone
>> have any recommendations for addressing this inside Pharo? I'm not
>> interested in 3D interfaces, but rather fast 2D interfaces. Any advice would
>> be greatly appreciated.
>>
I think that Athens will allow us to speed up things... Athens is a new
rendering canvas that can use Cairo or OpenGL as a backend.
http://computeradventures.wordpress.com/2012/03/07/athens-a-first-babysteps/
But of course there is a lot of work to be done... (e.g. porting it to run on
the iphone... porting NativeBoost to ARM ;-))
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Marcus Denker -- http://marcusdenker.de
