HydraTools and minimal images

Klaus D. Witzel klaus.witzel at cobss.com
Sat Feb 16 19:30:41 UTC 2008


On Sat, 16 Feb 2008 18:09:27 +0100, Igor Stasenko wrote:

> On 16/02/2008, Klaus D. Witzel wrote:
>> On Sat, 16 Feb 2008 13:56:54 +0100, Igor Stasenko wrote:
...
>> > index and handle is the result of previous calls to primitives which
>> > should return a HydraInterpreter instance from now.
>>
>> Still unclear: your user (a developer) has an index, say an element from
>> (1 to: n), for which you want to return her/him a HydraInterpreter
>> instance from now on?
>>
>
> Right.

</phew> and no further comment on index dilemma :)

...
>> > ..erm.. do you mean by HydraInterpreter  as an interpreter at VM side,
>> > or as an object?
...
>> BTW: isn't the HydraInterpreter name misleading (and causing confusion  
>> in
>> the above). How about using another name, without "interpreter" in it,
>> because your "as an interpreter at VM side" is something else.
>>
> Hmm, i don't know.
> We have HydraVM , which runs multiple interpreters and
> HydraInterpreter "represents" one of them.
> If you having better naming suggestions, just say it.

It doesn't interpret anything (it is as dead as a handle is dead), so I'd  
say HydraImageReference (like MethodReference etc).

/Klaus

P.S. any time frame for the next step(s) ?




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