Scott A Crosby wrote:

> No, doing that change requires both a VM change and a smalltalk-level
> change, Rebuilding a new incompatible image in the process. The gain is
> marginal. No MethodDictionary is 1/3 the size that would start to expose
> this problem.
> 
> > Also, changing the image format or rehashing all sets or any such should not
> > be considered a problem with a new image format being instated anyway, so we
> > ought to disregard such issues and just go for the best solution.
> 
> My earlier change is small-talk only, and leads to no image
> incompatibility.
Completely irrelevant since the entire focus of this project is to
produce a system that has an image format change!