Hi Pharo-ites,
> 
> I'm working on a port of Pharo to the Java Virtual Machine called Redline Smalltalk.
> (read more here: http://jamesladdcode.com/?p=323)

>> Excellent I think that having a smalltalk running on JVM is cool. Did you check SqueakOnJava? 

I have looked at these implementations, Bistro and others.
However, I'm wanting to get as close to native JVM Bytecode as possible.

>>Why do you want to port the compiler in Java? 
>>In Java you should only implement the necessary infrastructure to run the object model of Pharo (primitives
>>in particular). Then you can load Smalltalk code and you do not need  
>>to compile smalltalk code in smalltalk?

A good point, but I'm not sure how that approach would allow profiling, debugging and 
integration with Java. This is outlined a little in the previous post:
http://jamesladdcode.com/?p=311

>> study little Smalltalk for example to get an idea.
Would it be sufficient to choose those classes that are also outlined in the ANSI standard?

Rgs, James.