[self-interest] iPad?

[Pavel Krivanek]

Hi,

Lively Outliners (http://adamspitz.com/Lively-Outliners/example.xhtml) run
on iPad, it only needs to be optimized for the touch display. It is not the
Self but there will be not such performance penalty.

Cheers
-- Pavel

On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 7:59 PM, Josh Flowers <joshflowers at mac.com> wrote:

>
>
> 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)
> >
> > Russell
> >
> >> Have you thought about using LLVM to get self running on more platforms?
> >>
> >>
> >> Michael
> >>
> >> On Aug 17, 2010, at 7:16 PM, Russell Allen <mail at russell-allen.com<mail%40russell-allen.com>>
> wrote:
> >>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> That's true - and there's no guarantee that we will always be able to
> >>> jailbreak new iPhone/Pads.
> >>>
> >>> 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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> >
> > Yahoo! Groups Links
> >
> >
> >
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