Posted by
Andreas.Raab on
Nov 03, 2010; 4:57pm
URL: https://forum.world.st/RoarVM-The-Manycore-SqueakVM-tp3025321p3025752.html
On 11/3/2010 6:13 AM, Stefan Marr wrote:
> We are happy to announce, now officially, RoarVM: the first single-image
> manycore virtual machine for Smalltalk.
Congrats! That's a great step forward.
> RoarVM is based on the work of David Ungar and Sam S. Adams at IBM Research.
> The port to x86 multicore systems was done by me. They open-sourced their VM,
> formerly know as Renaissance VM (RVM), under the Eclipse Public License [1].
> Official announcement of the IBM source code release:
>
http://soft.vub.ac.be/~smarr/rvm-open-source-release/>
> The source code of the RoarVM has been released as open source to enable the
> Smalltalk community to evaluate the ideas and possibly integrate them into
> existing systems. So, the RoarVM is meant to experiment with Smalltalk systems
> on multi- and manycore machines.
Can you give us a high-level overview about what "the trick" is? I.e.,
which approach did you take to make this possible?
> If the community does not object, we would like to occupy the
>
[hidden email] mailinglist for related discussions. So, if
> you run into any trouble while experimenting with the RoarVM, do not hesitate
> to report any problems and ask any questions.
Sounds great. Thanks for sharing.
Cheers,
- Andreas