[self-interest] iPad?

[Josh Flowers]

What about a self interpreter written in JavaScript?  There'd be an obvious performance penalty, but it'd basically get Self onto every platform.

And you can get touch events from Safari on the iPad, so you could take almost-full advantage of the UI.

> LLVM would get us compilation to ARM, but would require a full rewrite of
> the VM. It wouldn't get us Windows because that's an issue of primitives
> not cpu. So I'm not sure that it would be simpler than porting the
> existing VM (which after all has already been done twice - from Sparc to
> PPC and PPC to x86)
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> Russell
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>> Have you thought about using LLVM to get self running on more platforms?
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>> Michael
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>> On Aug 17, 2010, at 7:16 PM, Russell Allen <mail at russell-allen.com> wrote:
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>>> That's true - and there's no guarantee that we will always be able to
>>> jailbreak new iPhone/Pads.
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>>> I'd actually be more interested in ARM so Self could go on the new breed
>>> of Android/Meego/WhateverLinux tablets coming out.
>>> 
>>> The concrete nature of morphic should work very well with a tablet.
>>> 
>>> Russell
>>> 
>>> On 17/08/2010, at 9:52 PM, Jecel Assumpcao Jr. wrote:
>>>> About the iPad, wouldn't only jailbroken devices be able to run Self?
>>>> Based on how Apple has treated Squeak, there is no way they would allow
>>>> Self in their app store.
>>>> 
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