[Help-smalltalk] Announces

[Gwenael Casaccio]

Hi,

I want to announce two projects for GNU Smalltalk:

 1) Multiple domains or "kernels" support in the VM:
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  The problem with Smalltalk is it doesn't know what is a "program",
if you start two programs and the first change the class A it will
impact the second programs that use it; this is a simple example,
there are also the memory iterations, or security issues with 
reflection, ...
  Now with the domain models you are allowed to create multiple 
environments that are separate/isolated from each others. I plan to 
improve the IDE to support it. I will write others posts to explain in 
depth the implementation and how to use it.

address@hidden:MrGwen/GNU-Smalltalk.git the branch domain


 2) GST Without ObjectTables:
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 I've started it for fun :D, don't expect a fully running GST, now
I've made a tool that generate a small image (1,5 Mo don't forget 64 
bits pointers) and just send few messages and after it crashes ;-)
I've removed the c bootstrap code, the compiler, and break a lot of 
stuffs too (like the GC :D) . My plans are to make the VM model simple. 
GST knows too much stuffs when I've implemented the domain support I was 
afraid by the number of classes, symbols known by the VM.

  For the GC I don't know what I'll do, I think we could disuss on the 
ml about a nice GC model (don't stop the world and // compaction). 
Anyway that's the beginning of a new story.

  But the first step is to clean up what I've done.

address@hidden:MrGwen/GNU-Smalltalk.git the branch domainMemoryOT
address@hidden:MrGwen/gst-bootstrap.git the image generator

Cheers,
Gwen