Hi Stephan--

 > If there would be direct references to external objects (something
 > like squeak://somehost/vmProcessId/objectPointer)...

	(See class Other in Spoon, what I use for proxies.)

 > ...which had to be accessed via message passing to another VM, the
 > problem of VM spanning GC of external objects would arise. But by
 > encapsulating object spaces into VMObjects (not allowing direct access
 > to external objects inside them) this problem could be avoided:
 > resulting objects of messages to them could just be newly created
 > objects in the receiver VMObject (under control of its GC).

	I'm just planning to make instances of Other play nice with finalization.


-C

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