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> You forgot , that primitive names are appear in VM as literals too.
> Just to be able to lookup for a primitive function by its name instead
> of index.
> But forget it.. Size is really not an issue, if we can focus on making
> VM more clean without obsolete stuff.

please this is important to move on and remove dust.

> The worst thing is image compatibility: you can't run images which
> using numbered primitives anymore. Or again, you would need to keep an
> index->name translation table for backward compatibility :)