Re: [Pharo-dev] Bug 18632 : Virtual Machine parameters need to be documented

2020-02-09 Thread Nicolas Cellier
Hi Benoit, you are right to say that documentation is lacking. Alas, it's not going to fall from the sky: there's no such thing like a VM Pantheon with gods ruling the VM world, not even half-gods (well maybe one super-powered hero, we have to acknowledge that a 10x speedup was brought by his exper

Re: [Pharo-dev] Bug 18632 : Virtual Machine parameters need to be documented

2020-02-07 Thread Benoit St-Jean via Pharo-dev
--- Begin Message --- Eliot, I was referring to VM parameters (aka #vmParameterPut:at:).  But now that you mention it, it adds another level of complexity. When you specify something in the command line arguments, how do you resolve the fact that the command line argument tells you something t

Re: [Pharo-dev] Bug 18632 : Virtual Machine parameters need to be documented

2020-02-07 Thread Eliot Miranda
Hi Benoit, On Fri, Feb 7, 2020 at 8:20 AM Nicolas Cellier < nicolas.cellier.aka.n...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Benoit, > for some reason (?), your email was marked as SPAM in gmail... > There is a short description in primitiveVMParameter, which is found in > generated code, for example: > > https:/

Re: [Pharo-dev] Bug 18632 : Virtual Machine parameters need to be documented

2020-02-07 Thread Nicolas Cellier
Hi Benoit, for some reason (?), your email was marked as SPAM in gmail... There is a short description in primitiveVMParameter, which is found in generated code, for example: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/OpenSmalltalk/opensmalltalk-vm/Cog/src/vm/gcc3x-cointerp.c or VMMaker source code (you can

[Pharo-dev] Bug 18632 : Virtual Machine parameters need to be documented

2020-02-06 Thread Benoit St-Jean via Pharo-dev
--- Begin Message --- I was looking for some documentation on VM parameters (are they read, read-write or write only as well as the expected argument type) and came across that issue on the old FogBugz database. https://pharo.fogbugz.com/f/cases/18632/Virtual-Machine-parameters-need-to-be-docum