On Mar 27, 2012, at 6:35 PM, Stéphane Ducasse wrote:
First, here's a little background about myself. I'm an academic researcher in human-computer interaction and educational technology. I've been programming in Smalltalk since the early days of Squeak. For those who remember, I wrote Swiki.
I do :)
me too. I think we even met a loong time ago... at ACM1 or OOPSLA...
Is there some sort of magic bullet for addressing this? Cairo? Does anyone have any recommendations for addressing this inside Pharo? I'm not interested in 3D interfaces, but rather fast 2D interfaces. Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
I think that Athens will allow us to speed up things... Athens is a new rendering canvas that can use Cairo or OpenGL as a backend. http://computeradventures.wordpress.com/2012/03/07/athens-a-first-babysteps/ But of course there is a lot of work to be done... (e.g. porting it to run on the iphone... porting NativeBoost to ARM ;-)) -- Marcus Denker -- http://marcusdenker.de