Re: [Help-Smalltalk] GNU Smalltalk Sprint

[Paolo Bonzini]

On 10/17/2010 03:04 PM, Stefan Schmiedl wrote:
> On Sat, 16 Oct 2010 13:08:34 +0200
> Paolo Bonzini<address@hidden>  wrote:
>
> > On 10/16/2010 12:18 PM, Nicolas Petton wrote:
> > > > >   Allow VisualGST to hook up to a headless gst like gst-remote
> > > > >   does. Just imagine how much fun working on a running Iliad app
> > > > >   you could have with this.
> > > +1 (not sure it's should be on the top of the list but it's very cool
> > > anyway)
> >
> > True, it would really be cool.  You need some kind of RPC, basically, so
> > that would be the "real" task.
>
> Isn't this already implemented with gst-remote?
> I may be naive, but, theoretically, there should be
> a point where GUI actions are resolved into commands
> that right now are being sent to the local VM.
> Could they not just as well be sent to another VM as well?

It is slow.  You want to pass object references and messages back and 
forth, not messages.

If you can avoid subtleties like exception handling, it is basically on 
the client side

doesNotUnderstand: aMessage
    oneObjectDumper dump: self; dump: aMessage.
    ^anotherObjectDumper loadProxy "this doesn't exist :)"

and on the server side

[anotherObjectDumper dumpProxy: "also doesn't exist :)"
    (oneObjectDumper load perform: oneObjectDumper load]

on the other side.

Paolo