[squeak-dev] Re: Image normalization

Paolo Bonzini bonzini at gnu.org
Thu Sep 18 09:54:51 UTC 2008


Bert Freudenberg wrote:
> 
> Am 18.09.2008 um 10:08 schrieb Paolo Bonzini:
> 
>>
>>> As long as the garbage collector does not change the order of objects,
>>> the vast majority of oops in a saved image will not change even in a
>>> direct-pointer model with a fixed base address.
>>
>> Unfortunately, that should be true for casual usage but not for
>> development.  The subclasses instance variable of Behavior is an
>> Array... I guess I don't need to explain further...
> 
> 
> Sure - I'm thinking of app deployment with a read-only image.

Ah, okay, I was thinking of app development since we're talking about
VCS here.

Paolo



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