[Vm-dev] Could someone add a VMMaker Inbox project to source.squeak.org?

[Chris Muller]

> Yet another issue is the dual persistence -- currently since we use
> both File-based AND Magma, we have to save a "data.obj" file, and so
> we're forced to keep the entire model into memory instead of taking
> advantage of Magma's ability to work efficiently with subgraphs of
> models.  But this is the only way we can have the MC history and
> origin functions.

When I do my 5.2 upgrade, I'll switch my own repository to Magma-only
and see how well it improves performance.  If it goes well, will
consider for source.squeak.org, too.

> As I run the exact same code repository on my laptops to manage my own
> code as runs source.squeak.org, after Squeak 5.2, I plan to refresh
> and test my own codebase, bring it up to 64-bit, latest Magma, and
> make some optimizations.  I'll test it by running my own development
> with it for a while and then apply the same upgrades to
> source.squeak.org.
>
>  - Chris