On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 1:23 PM, Stéphane Ducasse <stephane.ducasse@inria.fr> wrote:
On Mar 30, 2010, at 9:34 AM, laurent laffont wrote:
The problem with this option is we can't package it on Linux distros ... as open source software, I prefer that the VM downloadable on pharo website is a GCC (or other OSS compiler) compiled one.
Why? to run on linux you have to be compiled with GCC? Or it is again a license problem?
A version compiled with the Intel C compiler could be available on the Pharo website, but linux distro will never use it. They will prefer to recompile from scratch with gcc. What kind of boost performance is expected with the Intel compiler ? -- Serge Stinckwich UMI UMMISCO 209 (IRD/UPMC), Hanoi, Vietnam Every DSL ends up being Smalltalk http://doesnotunderstand.org/