[ANN] SqueakOS
Edward P Luwish
eluwish at uswest.com
Mon Oct 18 19:08:56 UTC 1999
Marcus Denker wrote:
[re: MiniSqueak2.2 image]
Hmm. I assume it needs a full VM, though. Does it work with 2.4 or 2.5?
For headless work, is it possible to strip out a bunch of primitives and any resulting dead code so the VM can be as small as possible? Or is this a problem left for the
reader :-)
I suppose the current work on dynamically-loadable images and a modular VM may answer this requirement (or maybe not).
[By headless I mean with a command-line workspace, not an embedded application like a PWS]
The reason I am asking is that as the VM becomes more complex (e.g., incorporates a JIT compiler), porting becomes far more difficult. It would help if there were a subsetting
of the VM so that manageable pieces can be debugged one at a time (or by more than one developer).
Ed
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