How I build squeak-vm with FT2Plugin on Linux

Hi Laurent,

Nice! I just did the same the other day ;)

My blog post describes step by step how to build a Unix VM from scratch on OSX:

http://www.adrian-lienhard.ch/blog?article=building-a-pharo-squeak-vm-from-first-principles

Please note that you are using the 3.11.3.*2135* sources, which produce a VM with terrible performance. The reason is that they don't have the gnuification step that creates a jump table instead of the case switch for the interpreter loop. I use the most recent source from SVN (r2151) and the bytecodes/s is 479400749 compared to 248543689.

Cheers,
Adrian

On Mar 10, 2010, at 23:24 , laurent laffont wrote:

> Hi,
>
> As a memento for me, I've written a tutorial to build the VM on Linux.
> http://magaloma.blogspot.com/2010/03/how-i-build-squeak-vm-on-archlinux.html
>
> I also provide the binaries and Pharo image with VMMaker loaded.
>
> As I'm newbie on building a VM, thanks for additional informations.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Laurent Laffont

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Great !

Can we merge our respective posts and put this on the Pharo wiki ?

I don't have write access to the wiki.

Do you know if there's an equivalent tutorial for windows ?

I will try with the svn trunk.

Laurent Laffont

On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 8:38 AM, Adrian Lienhard <[hidden email]> wrote:

Hi Laurent,

Nice! I just did the same the other day ;)

My blog post describes step by step how to build a Unix VM from scratch on OSX:

http://www.adrian-lienhard.ch/blog?article=building-a-pharo-squeak-vm-from-first-principles

Please note that you are using the 3.11.3.*2135* sources, which produce a VM with terrible performance. The reason is that they don't have the gnuification step that creates a jump table instead of the case switch for the interpreter loop. I use the most recent source from SVN (r2151) and the bytecodes/s is 479400749 compared to 248543689.

Cheers,
Adrian

On Mar 10, 2010, at 23:24 , laurent laffont wrote:

> Hi,
>
> As a memento for me, I've written a tutorial to build the VM on Linux.
> http://magaloma.blogspot.com/2010/03/how-i-build-squeak-vm-on-archlinux.html
>
> I also provide the binaries and Pharo image with VMMaker loaded.
>
> As I'm newbie on building a VM, thanks for additional informations.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Laurent Laffont

> _______________________________________________
> Pharo-project mailing list
> [hidden email]
> http://lists.gforge.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pharo-project


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On Thu, 2010-03-11 at 10:28 +0100, Mariano Martinez Peck wrote:
> Both really interesting posts. Now...Some people reported that the
> Exupery Linux VM has "nicer" fonts than the standard VM, even if both
> use true type.
> Then Bryce Kampjes said in the mailing list:
>
> "If it's font related then the Exupery VMs also have a patched bitlbt
> for
> subpixel antialiasing. The true type code uses that to make fonts look
> a
> bit nicer."
>
> Do you know how that can be included ?

Apply the .cs in the following email to your copy of VMMaker and also
build the truetype plugin:

http://n4.nabble.com/Fwd-Pharo-project-New-Pharo-based-on-core-10309-with-antialiased-fonts-td107050.html#a107071

The truetype work was done by Andy Tween. Googling for him, truetype,
plugin, and VM should find a bit more information.

Bryce

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On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 9:22 PM, Bryce Kampjes <[hidden email]> wrote:

On Thu, 2010-03-11 at 10:28 +0100, Mariano Martinez Peck wrote:
> Both really interesting posts. Now...Some people reported that the
> Exupery Linux VM has "nicer" fonts than the standard VM, even if both
> use true type.
> Then Bryce Kampjes said in the mailing list:
>
> "If it's font related then the Exupery VMs also have a patched bitlbt
> for
> subpixel antialiasing. The true type code uses that to make fonts look
> a
> bit nicer."
>
> Do you know how that can be included ?

Apply the .cs in the following email to your copy of VMMaker and also
build the truetype plugin:

http://n4.nabble.com/Fwd-Pharo-project-New-Pharo-based-on-core-10309-with-antialiased-fonts-td107050.html#a107071

The truetype work was done by Andy Tween. Googling for him, truetype,
plugin, and VM should find a bit more information.

Thanks Bryce!!! would be cool to have the "official" Linux VM for Pharo 1.0 release with this feature.

Cheers

Mariano

Bryce

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2010/3/22 Mariano Martinez Peck <[hidden email]>

On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 9:22 PM, Bryce Kampjes <[hidden email]> wrote:

On Thu, 2010-03-11 at 10:28 +0100, Mariano Martinez Peck wrote:
> Both really interesting posts. Now...Some people reported that the
> Exupery Linux VM has "nicer" fonts than the standard VM, even if both
> use true type.
> Then Bryce Kampjes said in the mailing list:
>
> "If it's font related then the Exupery VMs also have a patched bitlbt
> for
> subpixel antialiasing. The true type code uses that to make fonts look
> a
> bit nicer."
>
> Do you know how that can be included ?

Apply the .cs in the following email to your copy of VMMaker and also
build the truetype plugin:

http://n4.nabble.com/Fwd-Pharo-project-New-Pharo-based-on-core-10309-with-antialiased-fonts-td107050.html#a107071

The truetype work was done by Andy Tween. Googling for him, truetype,
plugin, and VM should find a bit more information.

Thanks Bryce!!! would be cool to have the "official" Linux VM for Pharo 1.0 release with this feature.

I've built one here http://lolgzs.free.fr/pharo/Squeak-3.11.3.2135-src-pached.tar.gz with FT2Plugin and the patched bitlbt.

If someone can test it on another machine ...

Note that I have several tests failing with this VM on RC3 image  (but it doesn't crash, so that's far better than my previous custom VM :)

Laurent Laffont

 

Cheers

Mariano

Bryce

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Thanks Bryce!!! would be cool to have the "official" Linux VM for Pharo 1.0 release with this feature.

I've built one here http://lolgzs.free.fr/pharo/Squeak-3.11.3.2135-src-pached.tar.gz with FT2Plugin and the patched bitlbt.

Excellent!!!   do you know if this vm has the "Gnuification"  ???

I saw an email from Adrian in VM maling list saying he has problem with that.

 

If someone can test it on another machine ...

I will try later (lazy to open virtual box hahah)
 

Note that I have several tests failing with this VM on RC3 image  (but it doesn't crash, so that's far better than my previous custom VM :)

Laurent Laffont

 

2010/3/22 laurent laffont <[hidden email]>

2010/3/22 Mariano Martinez Peck <[hidden email]>

On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 9:22 PM, Bryce Kampjes <[hidden email]> wrote:

On Thu, 2010-03-11 at 10:28 +0100, Mariano Martinez Peck wrote:
> Both really interesting posts. Now...Some people reported that the
> Exupery Linux VM has "nicer" fonts than the standard VM, even if both
> use true type.
> Then Bryce Kampjes said in the mailing list:
>
> "If it's font related then the Exupery VMs also have a patched bitlbt
> for
> subpixel antialiasing. The true type code uses that to make fonts look
> a
> bit nicer."
>
> Do you know how that can be included ?

Apply the .cs in the following email to your copy of VMMaker and also
build the truetype plugin:

http://n4.nabble.com/Fwd-Pharo-project-New-Pharo-based-on-core-10309-with-antialiased-fonts-td107050.html#a107071

The truetype work was done by Andy Tween. Googling for him, truetype,
plugin, and VM should find a bit more information.

Thanks Bryce!!! would be cool to have the "official" Linux VM for Pharo 1.0 release with this feature.

I've built one here http://lolgzs.free.fr/pharo/Squeak-3.11.3.2135-src-pached.tar.gz with FT2Plugin and the patched bitlbt.

Excellent!!!   do you know if this vm has the "Gnuification"  ???

I saw an email from Adrian in VM maling list saying he has problem with that.

 

If someone can test it on another machine ...

I will try later (lazy to open virtual box hahah)
 

Note that I have several tests failing with this VM on RC3 image  (but it doesn't crash, so that's far better than my previous custom VM :)

Laurent Laffont

 

Cheers

Mariano

Bryce

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