Em 10-06-2011 00:23, Dave Mason escreveu:
Oh... and it seems that Alien only works properly in Apple OS X...>
> On 2011-Jun-9, at 17:47 , Chris Cunnington wrote:
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>> Do you mean Alien?
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> Yes Alien....damned thumb keyboards....
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>> Alien is newer and was written to address some shortcomings in FFI.
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> What shortcomings?
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>> http://wiki.squeak.org/squeak/6100
>> http://www.squeaksource.com/Alien/
>> http://lists.gforge.inria.fr/pipermail/pharo-project/2010-March/023328.html
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>> http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/pipermail/squeak-dev/2010-April/148455.html
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> I followed those threads, but they don't really say why. �NativeBoost
> is faster than FFI, but NB is a whole other ball-of-wax, and I'd like
> to support it eventually as well as FFI/Alien.
that's a huge limitation for people developing in other platforms
(Linux/Windows).
CdAB
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> Thanks �../Dave
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