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Spur takes its first steps in Alpha!
(baby steps and giant leaps!) From Eliot Miranda: Hi All, it gives me great pleasure to let you know that a spur-format trunk Squeak image is finally available at http://www.mirandabanda.org/files/Cog/SpurImages/. Spur VMs are available at http://www.mirandabanda.org/files/Cog/VM/VM.r2987/. Spur is a new object representation and garbage collector for Squeak/Pharo/Croquet/Newspeak. Features The object representation is significantly simpler…
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Injected, Inspected, Detected, Infected, Neglected and Selected
Howdy! If you want to know some cool history of Smalltalk, and perhaps this is a strong argument in actually *being* a Smalltalk and not trying to distance yourself from that rich and lovely heritage…. anyway, here goes: On 04/28/2014 08:14 PM, Alain Busser wrote: > Also, Ruby is famous for these methods:…
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Squeak 4.5 Released!
From Chris Muller: So! Let it be known! Squeak 4.5 is released! Home page is here: http://www.squeak.org 4.5 release notes are here: http://wiki.squeak.org/squeak/6193 Excellent Job Everyone!! Can you tell we are excited!
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OLPC is not dead! Long live OLPC!
Check out OLPC XO-4. I would hate to add to the speculation that OLPC is dead because it’s not. Wayan Wota has been calling OLPC dead for 5 years. This is not news. He has not been involved with the project in a long time. His article is about the XO-1, apparently he doesn’t even…
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7-point summary of the Spur memory manager
From Clément’s post to the pharo community: Hello pharoers, The new Cog memory manager, Spur, is simply *amazing*. I saw at FOSDEM that some of you were interested in it, but unfortunately you were lacking information about it. I wrote a one page article that sums up Spur’s new features so every one can know what…
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