After looking for bugs in my code for a couple of days I came to the conclusion that the compiler might be generating bad code (which shows how humble I have...
... I was able to do the test today after all and the result was what I expected: with only the NIC enabled (using the _Compilers:Limits: primitive) my program...
Do I have this right?: 1. The Object proto delegates to the Lobby (so lookup for "globals" in objects inheriting from the Object proto get found) 2. The Lobby...
Steve, Not exactly, but close. There is no object proto, but many objects inherit from "traits clonable" which in turn inherits from the lobby. The lobby is...
David Ungar
David.Ungar@...
Sep 19, 2002 12:27 am
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... Interesting. Do you use any tricks to make checking if the parent has already been searched on each lookup fast? The only thing that occurs to me is OR-ing...
We use the most obvious trick in the world; a bit in the object's header just for this purpose. Lookup sets the bit when it sees the object, and clears them...
David Ungar
David.Ungar@...
Sep 19, 2002 4:56 am
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... That's fast. :-) Does this work with multiple threads? Do you use the bit to say "I've been here" or "One of my threads is doing a lookup here so you might...
... excellent research team from PUC-Rio de Janeiro advised by Lucena)! ... The base level based on OO paradigm especially the on class-based language is too...
Albertina Lourenci
lourenci@...
Sep 28, 2002 3:57 pm
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Jecel, Sorry about the bug. We are about to put out another Self release that has a bug fix in the SIC. (Thanks to Michael Abd-El-Malek.) Maybe it will fix...
David Ungar
David.Ungar@...
Sep 30, 2002 7:56 am
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Is there a list for discussing prototype languages in general? I am interested in figuring out some details concerning languages like Omega, Kevo, Obliq that...
... There is no software without them :-) TeX? ... I tried writing a simple loop to demonstrate the bug but couldn't do it. Now I tried running my program...
... There were one or two attempts to start one. Currently there is a more generic "langsmiths" list at Yahoo groups where you can find interested people. But...
Thank you for your informative responses. ... Yes, however in Obliq you do have a way to explicitly do "real" delegation to another object. ... No I hadn't...
First of all, I definitely appreciate the work on PICs for the PowerPC. On downloading and trying to work with the new version of Self, however, the ...
Hi I'm trying to use Self (4.1.6) on Jaguar and when I double click on the snapshot and application start to run and just stop after 2 seconds. Does somebody...
I am unable to download 4.1.6. I've tried IE, curl. Download does not complete. Each time I try it, it fails with a different amount of progress. curl ...
... James, This is very strange. I have downloaded the files from external sites with no problems. If anyone else has this problem, please let me know! In the...
... Hi Stef, Can you try dropping the snapshot on the SelfDroplet? I suspect that your Self snapshots are associated with the Self app, rather than the ...
Thanks a lot, it works. I'm redownloading everything because when I run the demo.snap I got a pane stating that this is 4.1.5 and not 4.1.6. So may be I did...
Stephane Ducasse
ducasse@...
Oct 9, 2002 9:46 pm
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Hi Brian, I haven't been able to reproduce your problem. I have tried the Self release on various machines and they all work fine. The undefined references...
... The "Welcome to Self 4.X.X" text in Demo.snap has often not been updated for new releases (this sometimes happens in Squeak as well). At least in the Sparc...
... After dozens of attempts I eventually got 100% progress. It was probably a firewall problem on this end. -- ... SuperCollider - a real time synthesis...
Hello all! I am looking for David M. Ungar's dissertation on "The Design and Evaluation of a High-Performance Smalltalk System." Does anyone know where I can...
Sven C. Koehler
schween@...
Oct 10, 2002 8:15 pm
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Hi all, WanteObject Oriented Developers, visit www.techieindex.net providing one stop resource for IT Professionals. If you find similar site let me know. ...
... Hi! This was published as a book: Ungar, David M. The design and evaluation of a high performance smalltalk system / Ungar, David M.. - Cambridge, Mass. :...
Marcus Denker
marcus@...
Oct 11, 2002 7:29 am
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... Yes, Google knows. I've found this scanned version (linked from the Open Directory Project): ...
Hello German! ... I tried this one yesterday, and couldn't get past page one without an error message, but it seems to work now. Thanks for pointing out. Bye,...