Re: Solaris 2.5 x86?

[David.Ungar@Eng.Sun.COM (David Ungar)]

20Meg?

We run with 8 and 10 frequently.
What computer are you using?

At 11:53 AM 6/3/96, Thierry Goubier wrote:
>On Mon, 3 Jun 1996, Jecel Assumpcao Jr wrote:
>
>> > Hum, did you gave up for tinySelf ?
>>
>> No, I am still working on it. It is taking me more
>> than the few days I promised on my web page, but
>> it is comming.
>
>That's good news !
>
>> > J.C. Mincke seems to be on the right
>> > way for his implementation. VCODE seems to be the right tool to attempt
>> > this implementation, but the x86 version is not yet ready.
>>
>> That's great! The more implementations there are of
>> the language, the stronger it is (as long as they can
>> run the same programs).
>
>This is a hard question. Will the implementation runs the same programs ?
>I don't think so, unless those programs don't use certain features (like
>the UI, for example).
>
>I'm not particularly found of morphs :-) and the self world is really
>slow to run, unless you allocate 20 MB to the code cache... There's also
>some problems with the metaphor used. Is it the response time, or is it
>the lack of scrollbars, but I think the display of large collections (or
>arrays) in an outliner is particularly annoying.
>
>> > But the result won't be like Self 4.0.
>>
>> Which is why I said that a port of Self 4.0 to other machines
>> would be very interesting even if we have other implementations
>> on these machines.
>
>It may be used as a comparison for theses "other" implementations; I
>don't think that anybody will manage the quality of the Self 4.0
>implementation anytime soon.
>
>A goal would be, anyway, to share enough common ground to run most
>programs through a rebuilding of the Self part of the image.
>
>By the way, what is the position of the Self group (or owners) about the
>reuse of the Self 4.0 source ? Not the VM source, but the Self one ? Can
>we use it to accelerate the development of others implementations ?
>
>> > I believe that very few Linux
>> > machines will have enough memory to run a direct port of Self 4.0. (I
>> > can't even find a Sparc usable for it :-()
>>
>> True, but you can get 32MB of RAM for 600 dollars in Brazil -
>> I imagine it is even cheaper in other places. That is a lot,
>> but you can easily pay more than that for a C++ compiler. If
>> you just want to try Self out to see what it is like, then
>> this isn't practical. But for serious use I think a Linux
>> port would be great.
>>
>> -- Jecel
>
>Hum, to get a truly efficient Self 4.0, 64 MB isn't enough on a Sparc 20
>biprocessor. Even if the x86 code is more compact that the Sparc one, I'd
>bet 32 MB isn't enough under Linux (and Linux has response problems under
>heavy swapping).
>
>And the compiler used is gcc...
>
>I think a Self 5.0 will be needed for a Linux port.
>
>Thierry.
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-- Dave