Loading SqueakMap packages question
tim Rowledge
tim at rowledge.org
Tue Jan 10 23:54:10 UTC 2006
On 10-Jan-06, at 3:48 PM, Avi Bryant wrote:
>
> Well, what Timothy may be asking about is the delay when SqueakMap
> refreshes the map of available packages. IIRC, this is done by
> loading an image segment, which is a primitive, and so *does* block
> the whole VM.
Fair point and one I didn't think of. The image segment loading
primitive is very fast though and is only a small part of the job of
loading and integrating a segment. I was thinking of the generic
process of loading source packages and compiling them. Should have
remembered binary loading.
tim
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