[squeak-dev] A Bootstrap Compiler

Hans-Martin Mosner hmm at heeg.de
Tue Dec 28 11:43:05 UTC 2010


Am 28.12.2010 11:19, schrieb Yoshiki Ohshima:
>   Hi,
>
>   We've been playing with John's MicroSqueak and it occured to me that
> having a bytecode compiler that is implemented outside of Squeak opens
> some possibilities, such as generate a growable image file from all
> text files, or make deep changes to the system without shooting
> yourself.
Very nice!
Even nicer would be to represent the minimal image as a structured text file from which the actual image can be created
with relatively simple C code. That way, the bootstrap would contain only human-readable constructs and no magic bytes.

Cheers,
Hans-Martin



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