The presentation will introduce the debut of S8. S8 is Smalltalk running over javascript execution engines on all major browser flavors. Its a generic framework but with initial implementations and objectives for the development of social networking and mobile applications. The presentation will discuss examples of this including the targetting of Android devices.
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Let we apply this year again for the Google Summer of Code, which as you know is a Google's stipendium program for students to encourage them working on open-source projects [1]. Ok, our first step as community is to collect ideas for possible projects and to apply to the GSoC as an organization.
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After some optimizations in both Seaside and AJP I managed to break 8000 requests / sec with a single Pharo 1.3 image. Thanks to SystemProfiler I knew where to look. This is with a single request handler that just returns a two byte response. It doesn't involve any rendering, sessions, continuations or whatsoever but it kicks on the full Seaside request handling machinery with a request context and everything.
It would be interesting to see how many requests a more "normal" set of pages could handle, but this sounds pretty cool.
