Mythical small kernel images?

diegogomezdeck at consultar.com diegogomezdeck at consultar.com
Tue Feb 11 21:14:47 UTC 2003


Hi,

Alejandro Reimondo has atached them in an email.  You can find them at
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/squeak/message/55613

Diego

> Diego
>
> I did not see this mini image where can I find it?
>
> Stef
>
> On Tuesday, February 11, 2003, at 09:45 PM,
> diegogomezdeck at consultar.com wrote:
>
>> Hi Luciano,
>>
>> You get confused by the paper "engendrando un smalltalk" (generating a
>> smalltalk) and the jod done to create a minimal image.
>>
>> The images that Alejandro has sent to this list are images created
>> BEFORE
>> the process of growing them using the parent-child process.  This
>> process
>> allows you to create the image you want, with or without the mechanism
>> described in the paper.
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Diego Gomez Deck
>>
>>
>>> Alejandro, this is very interesting.
>>>
>>> I remember you told me about this long time ago, and I
>>> still have the same doubts: How stable are the images
>>> produced with this process? The final image includes
>>> only methods that have been activated in the nurturing
>>> process, right? What about the methods that have not
>>> been activated, but that are needed later? How long do
>>> you have to nurture an image before it stabilizes?
>>> Does it stabilize at all?
>>>
>>> I guess at some point you would be able to generate a
>>> new image for the child, start a new vm and continue
>>> the nurturing process through the network. Are you
>>> doing that?
>>>
>>> Please try to realise this project under the Squeak-L.
>>> A lot of us are eager to play with it.
>>> Luciano.-
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
> Prof. Dr. Stéphane DUCASSE (ducasse at iam.unibe.ch)
> http://www.iam.unibe.ch/~ducasse/
>  "if you knew today was your last day on earth, what would you do
>  different? ... especially if, by doing something different, today
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