[squeak-dev] Re: Burn the Squeak Image! (Why I am running for board)

Stéphane Rollandin lecteur at zogotounga.net
Sun Mar 1 11:19:15 UTC 2009


Eliot Miranda a écrit :
> I need to point out that unless the various communities can start building
> their disparate and diverging images form a micro-kernel image I don't see
> how improved execution technology is going to be adopted by the community.
>  I'm working hard on a VM that will be potentially 10x the current Squeak VM
> for Smalltalk intensive benchmarks.  This VM will be source code compatible
> and bytecode compatible but likely it will not be image compatible as it
> will use a streamlined object representation that doesn't use compact
> classes.  The only way I can see this being adopted by the community at
> large is if the community starts building images form microkernels.

maybe a silly question (I have no idea of what is involved): would 
converting an image from the current format to the one your VM will 
require be an option ?

Stef




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