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The RoarVM [1] is a research project that showed how to run Squeak Smalltalk on thousands of cores (at one point it ran on 10,000 cores). I'm re-implementing i

The RoarVM [1] is a research project that showed how to run Squeak Smalltalk on thousands of cores (at one point it ran on 10,000 cores). I'm re-implementing it as a metacircular adaptive compiler and VM for a production operating system. We rewrite the STEPS research software and the Frank code [2] on a million core environment [3]. On the M4 processor we try to use all types of cores, CPU, GPU, neural engine, video hardware, etc. We just applied for YC funding. [1] https://github.com/smarr/RoarVM https://github.com/smarr/RoarVM [2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f1605Zmwek8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f1605Zmwek8 [3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wDhnjEQyuDk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wDhnjEQyuDk

rbanffy 1y ago
> I'm re-implementing it as a metacircular adaptive compiler and VM for a production operating system. You are doing God's work. Thank you.
wslh 1y ago
Good luck with your application. I played with Squeak a bit [1] and several friends like [2] were also active in converting Squeak in (also) a OS. [1] https://web.archive.org/web/20231205061256/http://swain.webframe.org/squeak/floppy/ https://web.archive.org/web/20231205061256/http://swain.webf... [2] https://wiki.squeak.org/squeak/1762 https://wiki.squeak.org/squeak/1762
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Sounds very worthy of pursuit. If anything gets funding, I hope it's this!