[squeak-dev] Release image format (was: "Future Directions" welcome workspace)

David T. Lewis lewis at mail.msen.com
Thu Dec 6 16:10:49 UTC 2012


On Thu, Dec 06, 2012 at 10:40:20AM -0200, Edgar J. De Cleene wrote:
> On 12/6/12 11:24 AM, "David T. Lewis" <lewis at mail.msen.com> wrote:
> 
> > Images saved under Cog
> > cannot be opened on an interpreter again!' which is true if and only
> > if the image had been saved from an obsolete interpreter VM. In other
> > words, for most users today the warning message is incorrect, confusing,
> > and wrong.
> 
> If understand well, what you say is the update could be done with CogVm's
> and with some preference saved as Cog or as Legacy (that is Legacy was older
> VM as Squeak 4.2.5beta1U John M McIntosh).

Yes, that is right.

Resaving the image from an interpreter VM is fast and easy, so it makes
sense to use Cog for the updating and image building, and just resave the
final result with an interpreter VM. Cog is a *lot* faster for doing
anything related to Montecello :)

Dave

> 
> Good news to me
> 
> Edgar
> 
> 


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