[squeak-dev] Re: A reengineering the CompiledMethod trailers

David T. Lewis lewis at mail.msen.com
Tue Dec 15 13:44:31 UTC 2009


On Sun, Dec 13, 2009 at 05:01:17PM -0800, Andreas Raab wrote:
> Ken G. Brown wrote:
> >At 12:14 AM +0200 12/14/09, Igor Stasenko apparently wrote:
> >Not sure how this relates exactly but there has been quite a bit of work 
> >in the past re: Virtual Image 4.0 format.
> >See:
> >New Compiled Method Format
> ><http://wiki.squeak.org/squeak/750>
> >
> >and:
> >VI4 project
> ><http://wiki.squeak.org/squeak/2119>
> 
> It doesn't relate. There may be some inspiration for how to deal with 
> source pointers but to be honest, I find Igors approach vastly more 
> useful since it doesn't immediately add a megabyte or more to the image 
> size (which would happen if you go to an explicit source pointer 
> representation) but rather makes the encoding explicitly accessible.
> 
> Go Igor!

+1

FYI, and just to make sure it does not get overlooked, there is also
this from Markus Denker:
 
  Mantis 4369: [Patch] Both source files now with 512MB capacity
  http://bugs.squeak.org/view.php?id=4369

Dave




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