Re: [Help-smalltalk] Google Summer of Code is here, your ideas please!

[Holger Hans Peter Freyther]

On Tue, Feb 04, 2014 at 11:48:21AM +0100, Janko Mivšek wrote:
> Dear Smalltalkers,

Hi,

> Title:

Port packages from Pharo to GST and improve tooling.
Mentor: me
Description:
Many Smalltalk packages are built for the Pharo platform.
The sourcecode is managed using the Monticello system. GNU
Smalltalk offers a gst-convert utility to modify code from
one dialect to another. The goal is to port existing packages
from Pharo and improve the tooling. This could include porting
of Monticello, Filetree and or other packages. The goal should
be to automatically track and convert a package that has been
ported once.


Multi-threaded GST VM
Mentor: me
Description:
GNU Smalltalk is a simple but heavily optimized Virtual Machine.
Smalltalk supports Processes but they are executed in a single
OS process. We would like to move global variables into a struct
and start using thread local storage. In the first step it should
be possible to execute bytecode in parallel on two different OS
processes. This should improve the locking/atomic operation in
Smalltalk.