[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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