Smalltalk scripting (was Re: jpython anyone?)

Bijan Parsia bparsia at email.unc.edu
Fri Dec 8 04:06:45 UTC 2000


On Thu, 7 Dec 2000, Lex Spoon wrote:
[snip]
> And I'll propose a modification of your scheme: store Squeak "scripts"
> as small image segments.  Have the minimal 2M image used for simply
> executing scripts, and have a 6M image around that's used for editting
> them.

Ok, clearly the minimal 2M image is going to include a compiler, etc. So
why not do the Python thing and let users compose their sciprts as text
files and compile them on first run to .stc (analogous to .pyc) files
(aka, image segments)?

Make everyone happy!

Cheers,
Bijan Parsia.





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