So to summarise the great thing about NB is that it does assembly code with pharo syntax, the bad thing about NB is that it does assembly code with pharo syntax.

Of course there are not that many people around to be sane enough to write assembly , so of course it will be removed at some point.

On Wed, Oct 14, 2015 at 7:36 PM Robert Withers <robert.w.withers@gmail.com> wrote:

Awesome! SO you can do emulation. That's fantastic.

thanks so much ^^
Robert

On 10/14/2015 12:30 PM, Esteban Lorenzano wrote:
> it allows you to define and execute assembly code in the image.
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> Esteban
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>> On 14 Oct 2015, at 18:24, Robert Withers <robert.w.withers@gmail.com> wrote:
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>> I'd think there's just as much concern with all the globals.�� What does ASMJIT do? a Jit?
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>> thanks so much ^^
>> Robert
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>> On 10/14/2015 11:18 AM, Esteban Lorenzano wrote:
>>> but beware�� ASMJIT part of NB (and well�� NB it self, that means) will fade away��
>>> it will remain compatible (95% of the cases), but we will unload it�� there is a lot of maintainability and security concerns around it.
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>>> Esteban
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>>>> On 14 Oct 2015, at 17:13, Max Leske <maxleske@gmail.com> wrote:
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>>>>> On 14 Oct 2015, at 17:01, Robert Withers <robert.w.withers@gmail.com> wrote:
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>>>>> I ran across it browsing and it looks pretty interesting. It's purpose remains a mystery to to me.
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>>>> NativeBoost provides an FFI. It��s used by Athens for example to render the fonts in Pharo using Cairo (http://cairographics.org).
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>>>> Cheers,
>>>> Max
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>>>>>
>>>>> --
>>>>> thanks so much ^^
>>>>> Robert
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