Hi,
I found that the handling of external objects is suboptimal in the image, and I came up with some ideas to make it better. I have a working solution in my image, but it can be even better.
It seems to me that only Semaphores are stored in the external objects array (slot 39 in the special objects array), but in practice any object can be stored there. Does it make sense to support objects of any other kind? If not, then the code could be simplified.
I also thought that I'll create a special semaphore (ExternalSemaphore - which is a subclass of Semaphore) that knows its own index in the external objects array. This could be really handy for finding the object in the array, but the VM is not willing to signal these semaphores in the external objects array. I thought that this is because the VM doesn't know anything about this class. So I tried to change Semaphore itself, but after the change the VM refused to signal any semaphores in the external objects array. Changing the class back to the original didn't help either. Without looking at the VM code, I assumed that the VM will signal anything which has the class in the 19th slot of the special objects array, but that doesn't seem to be the case. Is there any way to make this (add an instatnce variable to Semaphore and still get signals from the VM, or use instances of a subclass of Semaphore there) work?
Levente