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Does Tcl Blend work with green threads on Solaris or Linux?

April 26, 2017blend linux Solaris tcl threads

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Does Tcl Blend work with green threads on Solaris or Linux?

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No, Tcl Blend requires a native threads JVM. Initially we intended to make Tcl Blend work with a green threads JVM, but there are just too many problems to justify supporting this configuration. Is Tcl Blend stubs enabled? No, Tcl’s stubs mechanism does not work with Tcl Blend. As of version 1.3, Tcl Blend supports loading of both Tcl Blend and Tcl into an existing JVM. To implement this feature, the Tcl Blend shared library needs to know the specific version of Tcl it was compiled with. Tcl’s stubs mechanism is designed to support loading an extension into multiple versions of Tcl without the need for a recompile. Does Jacl or Tcl Blend work inside a web browser? No. Running Jacl inside a web browser or Tcl Blend inside the Tcl plugin is not supported. There are far too many issues related to security and flaky Java implementations inside browsers to make this feasible. For example, both the Netscape and IE implementations of Java disallow introspection of Java classes, so commands in