The PharoForTheEnterprise book has a chapter on Nativeboost. You can find the book here in pdf format https://ci.inria.fr/pharo-contribution/job/PharoForTheEnterprise/lastSuccess... also you can click on the folder to download only the Nativeboost chapter, but I advice to download the whole book since it has tons of useful info. On Thu, May 29, 2014 at 5:15 PM, Bob Williams <rwilliams19@cox.net> wrote:
I found an old Smalltalk/V imagine from 2000 and tracked down how I was able add calls to Windows DLLs and to add my own. It was in the class DynamicLinkLibrary and its subclasses, e. g., a call to the GDIDLL to draw a Bezier spline (which I believe I added) was:
bezierTo: hDC lpPoints: anLPPOINT count: anInt
<api: PolyBezierTo ulong struct ulong boolean>
^self invalidArgument
I added by own DLL to do matrix transformations that was written in ASSEMBLER to optimized the floating point processor pipelining (a start operation every cycle while it took 3 cycles to complete) and it performed about 15% better.
I have not found anything similar in Pharo, but it must if external libraries are used. NativeBoost seems to come close, but I cannot find any documentation. Can someone point me to some documentation, code, anything? It is greatly appreciated.
bw