Re: [Swarm-Modelling] SWARM on Clusters

[Scott Christley]

Russell Standish wrote:

> Now lets say you wanted to use Graphcode with Swarm. One of the things
> we did figure out how to do was to embed C++ models into Swarm. (See
> Richard Leow's paper from last SwarmFest). It should also be possible
> to call back Objective C methods from C++ so as to execute Objective C
> agents. We had hoped to knock up a demo where Heatbugs were running in
> parallel in Graphcode within the Swarm environment, however funding
> for that line of work has basically dried up, and we have other
> priorities now :(. It would still be a kewl thing to do if anyone is
> interested.

I meant to reply to this earlier but got distracted, but just as a bit 
of info; Apple is working on integrating their ObjC++ compiler into the 
GNU compiler so it will be available to all.  The word is that they are 
expecting it to be ready for the GCC 3.5 release.  I'm not sure if it 
will work with the GNU Objective-C runtime right out of the box, but 
numerous people are interested and will probably insure that any of 
those issues get worked out.  This will allow ObjC and C++ code to 
reside in the same file; ObjC can call C++ classes and C++ classes can 
call ObjC classes.

cheers
Scott