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Re: RoarVM: The Manycore SqueakVM

Posted by Stefan Marr on Nov 03, 2010; 5:27pm
URL: https://forum.world.st/RoarVM-The-Manycore-SqueakVM-tp3025321p3025811.html


Hi Andreas:

On 03 Nov 2010, at 17:57, Andreas Raab wrote:

>> 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?
Ehm, sorry, I do not really know where to start.
Could you be a bit more specific with your question?

A probably a bit too condensed overview is given in the technical section of the README.
http://github.com/smarr/RoarVM/blob/master/README.rst

Best regards
Stefan


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