IM 164: Mobile Smalltalk (AAC)
Welcome to episode 164 of Independent Misinterpretations - a Smalltalk and dynamic language oriented podcast with James Robertson and David Buck.
This week James and David talk about Smalltalk for mobile devices - david has been building an implementation for Android (with some thoughts towards eventual IO support as well). You can read more about Dave's work in progress over on his site
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Comments
Re: IM 164: Mobile Smalltalk (AAC)
[anonymous] March 3, 2014 13:02:17.510
Is there not still an IOS restriction against deploying both interpreted code, as well as background garbage collectors?
Re: IM 164: Mobile Smalltalk (AAC)
[David Buck] March 3, 2014 18:28:32.811
In iOS, you can deploy interpreted code so long as all the code is delivered as part of the application and isn't dynamically downloaded.
See [link 1]
As for garbage collection, the restriction seems to be less on garbage collection and more on background processes. Garbage collection (especially generation scavenging) is normally done as a foreground process. Allowing processes to run while background garbage collection is running is a much more sophisticated algorithm and one I may not implement.
If I'm mistaken about either of these points, I would appreciate being corrected. My reading of the license agreement is that neither of these is intrinsically a problem.
[1 http://www.gamasutra.com/blogs/KerryJones/20130604/193593/iOS_interpreted_code.php]