"Stephen Pair" <spair at acm.org> is claimed by the authorities to have written:

> I'm attempting to build a BerkeleyDB persistence solution for Squeak.  I
> had hoped that I could do this without modifying the VM...however, I'm
> coming to the conclusion that a few key modifications to the VM would
> make life much simpler.
After reading this thread and musing awhile, I have to say that I would
be inclined to use a VM with an Object Table for this kind of work. It
makes assorted becomes and forwardings a lot simpler, provides a full
30-odd bit hash for any object and just seems to offer quite a lot for
the money.

tim

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