Introducing Huemul

[bryce at kampjes.demon.co.uk]

Bert Freudenberg writes:
 > > Sebastian
 > > PS: by persistant I mean a smalltalk that has it's instances  
 > > "living" in a
 > > persistent medium and the VM uses the RAM of the computer as a mere  
 > > cache.
 > > Based on the blue book and with some theoretical guidelines from  
 > > Guille here
 > > I've was able to make a prototype of a persistent ST for business  
 > > objects
 > > (it didn't persist contexts and such)
 > 
 > That's how Gemstone Smalltalk works. It's got a transactional object  
 > memory on disk (arbitrary size) and you can run any number of VMs on  
 > that image concurrently ... pretty cool.

Magma does a similar thing for Squeak.

Bryce