Re: [Help-smalltalk] ObjectSpaces for GST and VM ideas

[Nicolas Petton]

Finally, I can read the code and play with it as it deserves!

That's super cool :)

Nico

Le lundi 25 janvier 2010 à 10:47 +0100, Gwenael Casaccio a écrit :
> Hi Paolo,
> 
> I rewrite the implementation of the ObjectSpaces for GST, you can look
> on my GST fork inside the branch object-space. This clean up is really
> better :
>   - I use macros instead of _object_space[_current_space].myField
>   - no more inside the oop.h
>   - new files : 
>        system-dict which contains the structure with all the class name 
>        object-space : object-space it self
> 
>  At this time I've not merged the security work on the branch and the
> multi image support ;) I'll try to do to soon as possible.
> 
> ObjectSpaces are a kind of software process isolation in Smalltalk the
> interest is :
> 
> This is really nice we can prevent big allocation : 
>    OrderedCollection new: 10.....0.
> We can disable some primitives useful : 
>    ObjectMemory quit :)
> Of course writing on external ObjectSpace can be impossible : 
>    Array := 1 :D.
>    myExternalRef instVarAt: 1 put: ...
> An other nice property is :
>    Array allInstances will only returns instances inside the
> ObjectSpace 
> 
> I've also an idea : thread each spaces with a vm thread and use a
> message queue when you send a message to an external ObjectSpaces.
> 
> Also I've  made a copy on write for strings with a VM support ( not
> finished patch ) and a largeOOP prototype with a BTree support : I
> should extend the GC to support BTree.
> 
> For a 3.3 version of GST ;)
> 
> Gwen
> 
> 
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