On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 2:35 PM, Bert Freudenberg <bert at freudenbergs.de>wrote:

> I seem to remember a hack that allowed the sources file to be compressed on
> disk. It would be uncompressed on-the-fly. Does someone remember that hack?
> I couldn't find it.
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CompressedSourceStream & SystemDictionary>>compressSources is in our 3.8
derived Teleplace images.

There's also the scheme that discards the sources altogether by using a
compressed array of temp names at the end of each method.  See
SystemDictionary>>abandonSources.

best
Eliot


> Background: The new OLPC XO does not use a compressing filesystem anymore.
> So the Etoys sources file size hurts more than before.
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