A port of Pharo: Redline Smalltalk ...

Hi Pharo-ites,
> 
> I'm working on a port of Pharo to the Java Virtual Machine called Redline Smalltalk.
> (read more here: http://jamesladdcode.com/?p=323)
 
>> Excellent I think that having a smalltalk running on JVM is cool. Did you check SqueakOnJava? 

I have looked at these implementations, Bistro and others.
However, I'm wanting to get as close to native JVM Bytecode as possible.
 
>>Why do you want to port the compiler in Java? 
>>In Java you should only implement the necessary infrastructure to run the object model of Pharo (primitives
>>in particular). Then you can load Smalltalk code and you do not need  
>>to compile smalltalk code in smalltalk?

A good point, but I'm not sure how that approach would allow profiling, debugging and 
integration with Java. This is outlined a little in the previous post:
http://jamesladdcode.com/?p=311

>> study little Smalltalk for example to get an idea.
Would it be sufficient to choose those classes that are also outlined in the ANSI standard?

Rgs, James.

Hi Pharo-ites,

> Would it be sufficient to choose those classes that are also outlined in the ANSI standard?
>>oh no. :)
>>This is why you should study squeakOnJava, and other Smalltalk implementations. 
>>Take the squeak mini 2.2 image or littleSmalltalk (which run on java already and you will see what you need).

I will look at the implementations you have suggested. 

Rgs, James.