[squeak-dev] Re: Squeak vision

Hilaire Fernandes hilaire at ofset.org
Sat Jul 11 09:01:19 UTC 2009


Bert Freudenberg a écrit :

>> The first step in this direction could be a fast bytecode package 
>> loader, without the need to compile Smalltalk code.
> 
> 
> Indeed. Perhaps you remember the discussions we had about ImageSegments 
> that loaded classes complete with CompiledMethods? Which is way way 
> faster than compiling code, and could not only be used to load squeak 
> apps on top of a fixed image like for Dr Geo on Etoys, but could also 
> lead to blazingly fast updates, or to very efficient field patches of 
> deployed software. Maybe bringing this idea up in a separate thread here 
> on squeak-dev would get some developer intrigued - I for one do find 
> this a fascinating project.

I have the felling (unobjective) such feature could make life easier to 
third party Etoys developer and eventually attract more of them to Etoys.

Hilaire




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