Hi Eliot and all!
Eliot Miranda wrote:
Hi All, I'm looking at making the Squeak FFI reentrant to support nested calls and possibly threading. The current FFI has a couple of issues which render it non-reentrant.
The tech stuff is over my head, but I do have three questions related to this:
1. What about Alien? Shouldn't we try to move towards Alien instead of current FFI? Or is that too much work at this point?
2. Callbacks has been a sore point in Squeak for a long time. AFAIK there is a patch available on www.squeakgtk.org/wiki/download.html, not sure what it does or if it is the original patch from Andreas when wxSqueak was being built. wxSqueak had a patched VM I recall. Perhaps that stuff is not related.
3. Could we possibly ask for a status update on Cog and related activities? We are itching for news! :) Also curious about your interest in Factor and its lower bowels (definitely cool stuff going on there).
regards, Göran