Strongtalk VM now open sourced

[Bill Sun]

Brian,

>From Strongtalk's mailing list, it seems that they plan to focus on ironing out the VM first.  That said, you might be able to fish someone with the qualifying skills to help improve Slate's VM from there.

Strongtalk's developer, David Griswold, mentioned that he's not sure there's enough man power to sustain another Smalltalk variant, and that he doesn't like the idea of having multiple Smalltalk implementations.  But he will get the VM up and polished so that it may be adopted by Squeak or other projects.  After that, it may be up to the Strongtalk community to decide.

http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/strongtalk/

-Bill

----- Original Message ----
From: Brian Rice <water at tunes.org>
To: Bill Sun <billksun at yahoo.com>; Slate project discussion <slate at tunes.org>
Sent: Thursday, September 21, 2006 10:07:12 PM
Subject: Re: Strongtalk VM now open sourced

Yes, and a port and integration of the inliner to Slate (mostly in  
Slate with just enough VM hooks to be efficient) would solve nearly  
all of the performance problems. And it would be /interesting/.  
Someone just has to do it.

On Sep 21, 2006, at 7:38 PM, Bill Sun wrote:

> Sun Microsystem has open sourced the Strongtalk VM.  I remember a  
> few positive references to Strongtalk by some of you, so I thought  
> you might be interested in this news, if you haven't already heard.

--
-Brian
http://tunes.org/~water/brice.vcf





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