Pardon my ignorance.  Is the "new" compiler a better Smalltalk to 
bytecode compiler, or a bytecode to binary compiler?  It is not clear 
from earlier posts I have access to.

Michael

On Dec 13, 2004, at 1:40 PM, stéphane ducasse wrote:

>> Yes, that's exactly right.  And by the same logic, I would now have no
>> problem having VMMaker etc in basic either, since they are now (post
>> 3.5) well packaged too - as I said, I don't *care* what's in basic and
>> what isn't as long as I can trivially unload some of it.  Or what's
>> not in it, since I can trivially load what I need.
>
> For traits we would like to use OB because the old browser is hell.
> And managing the new compiler as a package would be much easier for 
> marcus.
> This has also the nice effect that we could even produce an image 
> without the compiler.
> Cool ;) but this is for mini-image people.
> So we would like to have MC to be able for us to go fast.
>
> Stef
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