At 12:34 PM 9/1/98, Tim Rowledge wrote:
>I'm inclined to agree; weak pointer stuff would help a lot with releasing
>external resources (like files and eventually windows etc) and external api
>stuff would provide the door to the factoring of the VM that Travis
>suggested.
>The weak pointers probalby need to go into the base VM since it involves
>detailed gc changes. I can't easily see them being a simple add-in.
>Similarly, the external api stuff would probably need to be there in order
>to load the external api stuff if it wasn't already there...

Has anyone successfully recompiled the Mac VM to include WeakArrays and/or
sqAPI yet?

It would be great if this Squeak geek would make it and a virgin image
available (ala STP).

--Maurice

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