[squeak-dev] Image conversions (was Re: Squeak Trunk V3 Update Stream)

K K Subbu kksubbu.ml at gmail.com
Fri Feb 16 05:04:28 UTC 2018


On Friday 16 February 2018 12:50 AM, Eliot Miranda wrote:
> 1. write a loader for the 16-bit Smalltalk-80 v2 image that brought in 
> the objects in their native format. This would involve writing a simple 
> memory manager sufficient for the very simple 16-bit object representation

Another simplification - no garbage collection. This is short-lived 
program dealing with 16-bit images and unlikely to exhaust available 
heap on a modern machines.

> 2. write a converter that took this loaded image and constructed a Spur 
> format 32- or 64- bit image

How about moving this proposal to the wiki where it can be augmented 
with hints and references? It can serve as a starting assignment for a 
budding researcher.

Regards .. Subbu



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