[Q][modules] majorShrink

Henrik Gedenryd h.gedenryd at open.ac.uk
Thu Jan 10 09:47:15 UTC 2002


Hannes Hirzel wrote:

> Second question:
> Is there already some modules code I can use right now?
> 
> 
> Regards
> Hannes

There will be a grat deal of refactoring required before the module system
will work to shrink the image efficiently. Even with the module system, all
the horrible dependencies are still there and need to be removed.

So it will be a while before the old-style shrinking procedure will be
superseded.

Henrik

PS. I think the Worlds of Squeak projects are the large memory users in the
image, in terms of saving space. Removing all the classes of the largest
subsystem (VMConstruction) only gives you ~600k worth of shrinking, for
example. Someone else may be able to answer this better.





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