Re: The idea of VM Learning Toolkit

Hi guys. Since several months, I wanted to create a little browser for learning VM and related stuff. I never did anything because I was lazy. Last week, I took Glamour and without knowing almost anything about it, in less than 3 hours, I come up with what I want to share with you. Basically, I only have the browsers for the moment. My knowledge is very limited in the Slang to C translator, or machine code simulation. The only thing I need is CompiledMethod >> #asCString and #asMachineCode. Eliot told me he was going to provide me such stuff for machine code, and hopefully Dave can help me with the C code.

Having said that, I would like to share what I have in mind:  there are 3 browsers:

1) VMBrowserSlang:  shows only packages and classes which are written in slang. When you select a method, you have 2 panels: smalltalk code and C translated code.
Screenshot: http://img857.imageshack.us/i/vmbrowserslang.png/

2) VMBrowserMethods:  shows all packages and classes of the system and for every method, you have 3 panels: smalltalk code, bytecodes and machine code (using the simple mapping)
Screenshot: http://img862.imageshack.us/i/vmbrowsermethods.png/

3) VMBrowserMappings: this is for you Eliot!!  Basically, it  shows all packages and classes of the system and for every method, you have 5 panels: smalltalk code and one panel per strategy to map to machine code (simple cogit, sista, etc).
Screenshot:  http://img4.imageshack.us/f/vmbrowsermappings.png/

As soon as someone can provide me the #asMachineCode and #asCString for Cog, I release it.

What do you think ?

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Mariano
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