[squeak-dev] [Vm-dev] Condensing sources for a new release
David T. Lewis
lewis at mail.msen.com
Tue Feb 11 01:47:34 UTC 2020
On Mon, Feb 10, 2020 at 08:48:49AM -0800, Eliot Miranda wrote:
>
> Hi David, Hi Release Manager, Hi All,
>
> On Thu, Feb 6, 2020 at 6:03 PM David T. Lewis <lewis at mail.msen.com> wrote:
> >
> > A 64-bit to 32-bit image converter would be a very good thing to have
> > in our toolkit :-)
>
> I got this working this morning. See Cog-eem.398. So to use,
> - clone or update an opensmalltalk-vm repository
> - cd to the image directory and create a VMMaker image via either
> buildspurtrunkvmmaker64image.sh or buildspurtrunkvmmakerimage.sh
> - run a converter, e.g.
> Spur32to64BitImageConverter new bootstrapImage: 'trunk6'.
> (produces trunk6-64.image & trunk6-64.changes)
> Spur64to32BitImageConverter new bootstrapImage: 'trunk6-64'.
> (produces trunk6-64-32.image & trunk6-64-32.changes)
>
> Converting a 28Mb 64-bit image into a 22Mb 32-bit image takes 9 seconds on
> my 2.9GHz Core i9 MacBook Pro
>
>
> So let's try releasing by converting the 64-bit image into a 32-bit one.
>
Bravo! I am away now but will try doing an image conversion as soon as
I can tomorrow.
Thanks Eliot,
Dave
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