Marcus Denker <marcus at ira.uka.de> is widely believed to have written:

> Smalltalk/X uses a "code pointer". This contains the adress of some runtime
> genated code or a pointer to some code compiled with gcc (for Primitives or
> statically compiled methods with the smalltalk-to-c compiler).
Mmm, is it just the one pointer? What happens with a primitive _and_
translated Smalltalk backup code? Or is that not allowed?

tim

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Tim Rowledge, tim at sumeru.stanford.edu, http://sumeru.stanford.edu/tim
Thrashing is just virtual crashing.