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RoarVM is a manycore Smalltalk Virtual Machine

13 mentions on Hacker News by 11 people: 5 stories, 8 comments · first 2010-11-04 · latest 2025-05-17

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  1. …types of cores, CPU, GPU, neural engine, video hardware, etc. We just applied for YC funding. [1] https://github.com/smarr/RoarVM [2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f1605Zmwek8 [3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wDhnjEQyuDk
    comment by fiberhood · 2025-05-17 · in Catalog of Novel Operating Systems
  2. Could have meant RoarVM. https://github.com/smarr/RoarVM
    comment by jdougan · 2024-06-19 · in Spur – RISC IV: The Lisp Multiprocessor Workstation
  3. …is about the Pharo 12 release and supposedly RoarVM is "compatible with Squeak 4.1 and Pharo 1.2 ". https://github.com/smarr/RoarVM
    comment by igouy · 2024-04-26 · in Pharo 12
  4. https://github.com/smarr/RoarVM is the main thing that comes up when trying to learn about this, and it hasn't been touched in over 10 years. I have also seen people working on spawning child VMs to handle parallelism, though unfortunately…
    comment by batman-farts · 2024-04-26 · in Pharo 12
  5. You sound like talking about https://github.com/smarr/RoarVM RoarVM, formerly known as the Renaissance Virtual Machine (RVM) is developed as part of a IBM Research project to investigate programming paradigms and languages for manycore…
    comment by sebastianconcpt · 2023-03-15 · in Smalltalk: An Entrepreneur’s Secret Weapon? (2020)
  6. …(available in all but the most simple Raspberry Pis) would also be nice. Here, the Roar system ( https://github.com/smarr/RoarVM ) might be an interesting starting point. Let's see if I can find some students who want to work on some of…
    comment by johndoe0815 · 2023-01-02 · in Smalltalk-80 on Raspberry Pi: A bare metal implementation
  7. …and was later ported to run on multiprocessor x86 machines: https://stefan-marr.de/renaissance/ https://github.com/smarr/RoarVM This was a research project so performance on a single core was poor compared to the official Squeak virtual…
    comment by jecel · 2022-01-12 · in On Learning Smalltalk
  8. Check out the work on roar vm https://github.com/smarr/RoarVM if you are interested in such things. There are rad videos here too: http://stefan-marr.de/renaissance/
    comment by shaunxcode · 2015-02-10 · in Learning Smalltalk from “Pharo by Example”