Panda Smalltalk

Interesting discussion on pgo about embeddable scripting engines. Another option to experiment with is Syx Smalltalk, created by fellow Smalltalker Luca Bruno. It has full support for embedding and is quite portable as well. Smalltalk can do closures ... [More] as well. In Smalltalk, closures are known as blocks and are used for just about everything, from … Continue reading More musings about Smalltalk [Less]

Interesting discussion on pgo about embeddable scripting engines. Another option to experiment with is Syx Smalltalk, created by fellow Smalltalker Luca Bruno. It has full support for embedding and is quite portable as well. Smalltalk can do closures ... [More] as well. In Smalltalk, closures are known as blocks and are used for just about everything, from enumerating [...] [Less]

It seems I am now on planet gnome. Thanks Jeff! I’d better introduce myself. I am a 4th year CS student living in Cape Town, South Africa. I have been hacking on Glade 3 since 2006, and have committed bug fixes to various GNOME modules. Since November, I have been working on a new project of [...]

It seems I am now on planet gnome. Thanks Jeff! I’d better introduce myself. I am a 4th year CS student living in Cape Town, South Africa. I have been hacking on Glade 3 since 2006, and have committed bug fixes to various GNOME modules. Since November, I have been working on a new project … Continue reading Hello planet-web

Time for more microbenchmarks! Someone just pointed me out to this post which describes another fibonacci shootout. It gave the brand new Ruby 1.9 VM a test drive. Ruby 1.9’s execution model is quite different from 1.8, featuring a highly optimized bytecode interpreter (codenamed YARV). I must admit that I totally overlooked YARV. All the [...]

Time for more microbenchmarks! Someone just pointed me out to this post which describes another fibonacci shootout. It gave the brand new Ruby 1.9 VM a test drive. Ruby 1.9’s execution model is quite different from 1.8, featuring a highly optimized ... [More] bytecode interpreter (codenamed YARV). I must admit that I totally overlooked YARV. All the … Continue reading Fibonacci Redux [Less]

I am having great fun working on my Smalltalk VM. I spent the last few weeks mainly on implementing a compacting garbage collector. There have been some nice additions to the class library, including the Set, Dictionary, and System classes.What’s been particularly pleasing to me personally is that certain benchmarks have come out very fast, [...]

I am having great fun working on my Smalltalk VM. I spent the last few weeks mainly on implementing a compacting garbage collector. There have been some nice additions to the class library, including the Set, Dictionary, and System classes.What’s ... [More] been particularly pleasing to me personally is that certain benchmarks have come out very fast, … Continue reading Progress [Less]

As some of you might have noticed, I have become somewhat of a Smalltalk weenie recently. This was a long time coming, but basically a reaction to many years of tedious hacking in C. Now don’t get me wrong, C is a great language, I still love it, but I have been using it in [...]

As some of you might have noticed, I have become somewhat of a Smalltalk weenie recently. This was a long time coming, but basically a reaction to many years of tedious hacking in C. Now don’t get me wrong, C is a great language, I still love it, but I have been using it in … Continue reading 3 + 4