Il giorno ven, 28/09/2007 alle 10.00 +0200, Bert Freudenberg ha scritto:

> Another idea I have been pondering for a while is making the lower  
> part of Squeak's object memory be "constant". There is a large number  
> of objects in an image that virtually never change but are only read.  
> This part does not have to be garbage-collected, making a full GC  
> much cheaper. When we fork off a new system process with the VM using  
> copy-on-write pages, this part could be shared between images,  
> reducing the over-all memory consumption significantly.

Could this constant part be kept in a separate file, thus reducing also
the disk occupation of our images?

	Ciao,

		Giovanni