Alternatively, with new method trailers you could save the comressed
method's source code method inside method's trailer.
Loosing the history track, however.


2010/1/14 Bert Freudenberg <bert at freudenbergs.de>:
> On 14.01.2010, at 04:40, David T. Lewis wrote:
>>
>> On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 09:54:34PM -0500, David T. Lewis wrote:
>>> On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 11:59:01PM +0100, Bert Freudenberg wrote:
>>>> On 13.01.2010, at 23:51, Eliot Miranda wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> 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.
>>>>>
>>>>> CompressedSourceStream & SystemDictionary>>compressSources is in our 3.8 derived Teleplace images.
>>>>
>>>> Ah, great, thanks! Scott also pointed me to this:
>>>>
>>>> http://wiki.squeak.org/squeak/3510
>>>
>>> The necessary support has somehow survived in Squeak trunk as well,
>>> see also FileDirectory class>>openSources:forImage:
>>>
>>> #compressSources encounters an error in trunk, but a little bit of fiddling
>>> around would probably get it working.
>>>
>>> It looks like you just need to write a compressed EtoysV3.sources.stc
>>> file using #compressSources, and it might just work :)
>
> The compression appears to work fine but it actually does not correctly deal with Unicode characters. I added a fix at
>
> http://tracker.squeakland.org/browse/SQ-647
>
>> Attached .cs is all that is required to produce a compressed sources
>> file that seems to work correctly on a 3.8 image. It does *not* produce
>> a usable compressed sources file on a Squeak trunk image, but that can
>> be a problem for another day.
>
> Is the symptom similar to what I see in Etoys?
>
>> I would spend a few minutes browsing source code to make sure nothing
>> is broken, but at first blush it seems fine.
>>
>> All I had to do is 'Smalltalk compressSources', quit the image, delete
>> the normal sources file, restart the image, and viola it was using
>> the compressed SqueakV3.stc file instead of SqueakV3.sources.
>
> You don't even need to delete the old sources file, the compressed one is searched for first. Just put it next to the image.
>
>> <SystemDictionary-compressSources-patch-dtl.1.cs>
>
> Maybe my fix for Etoys works in trunk too?
>
> - Bert -
>
>
>



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