<p>The discussion on vm-dev shows that this tries to solve a problem which rather is at image side in latest Pharo.<br>
See <a href="http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/pipermail/vm-dev/2018-March/027341.html" rel="nofollow">http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/pipermail/vm-dev/2018-March/027341.html</a><br>
and that we should aim at simplifying the implementation rather than complexifying<br>
See <a href="http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/pipermail/vm-dev/2018-March/027343.html" rel="nofollow">http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/pipermail/vm-dev/2018-March/027343.html</a></p>
<p>About the simplification, wasn't there another effort to remove the cached file size?<br>
And excuse the naive question, but why feof() would not work for all cases?</p>

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