<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 1:22 PM, GeertC <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:geert.wl.claes@gmail.com">geert.wl.claes@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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What is the first thing the VM does when starting an image? I want to learn<br>
more about how the image actually works.<br>
<font color="#888888"></font></blockquote></div><br><br>It runs main() or WinMain().<br><br>If you really want to know what the VM does, have a look at the VM source. See <a href="http://www.squeakvm.org/">http://www.squeakvm.org/</a>.<br>
<br>Also, see here for a description of how the VM works; Squeak is similar but different to this:<br><br><a href="http://users.ipa.net/~dwighth/smalltalk/bluebook/bluebook_imp_toc.html">http://users.ipa.net/~dwighth/smalltalk/bluebook/bluebook_imp_toc.html</a><br>
<br>The rest of the blue book is available on Stef's book list (Google for it).<br><br>Gulik.<br><br>-- <br><a href="http://gulik.pbwiki.com/">http://gulik.pbwiki.com/</a><br>