Re: [Swarm-Modelling] SWARM on Clusters

[Russell Standish]

I would be very surprised if this were true. Objective C and C++ have
completely different underlying runtime paradigms. One could fairly
say that they're orthogonal to each other.

                                        Cheers

On Thu, Mar 04, 2004 at 06:14:10PM -0500, Scott Christley wrote:
> 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
> 
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