[squeak-dev] Application deployment in Squeak
Michael Rueger
m.rueger at acm.org
Sun Mar 8 04:48:58 UTC 2009
Hans-Martin Mosner wrote:
> If you skip the fancy type-inference stuff and just throw out the
> compiler and development tools, you might get a pretty OK result without
> much hassle. Of course there would be room for space improvement, but in
> today's desktop environments this is mostly a non-issue.
There is still one reason why you would want to keep your image as small
as possible: garbage collection.
What would help would be what in VW is called PermSpace. Eliot probably
knows best how much that would save on GCs and/or what the trade offs are.
Michael
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