[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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