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Re: [Swarm-Modelling] SWARM on Clusters
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Russell Standish |
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Re: [Swarm-Modelling] SWARM on Clusters |
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Tue, 9 Mar 2004 09:24:16 +1100 |
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I wasn't aware that we were discussing Objective C++. Indeed that is a
very interesting development.
In the past Objective C and C++ needed to be compiled separately, but
then linked together in one executable via their common C
interface. This is what is tedious and error prone.
On Thu, Mar 04, 2004 at 07:49:49PM -0700, Marcus G. Daniels wrote:
> Russell Standish wrote:
>
> >Unless, of course, you use an automated scheme, such as the Classdesc work
> >Richard did.
> >
> >
> Swarm also implements such an automated scheme (interface and stub
> generation) for Java and COM, but Objective C++ is not that. If
> Objective C++ is compatible with the FSF libobjc runtime (I don't know
> and haven't tried), then Swarm models could be implemented in C++.
> Period. Swarm wouldn't need any changes at all. (That's the whole
> point for Apple -- they've got gobs of Objective C code implementing
> Cocoa, but users that need higher performance code or to be able to
> write new codebases in a language that is more widespread.)
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