And it seems the project saves the classes in the image segment as the size is much bigger that without the hack. On project load, class methodDictionaries are restored once class definitions are filed in, but the method bodies are lost.
If we respect the spirit of SISS, the code should be store as source text, or S-expression that corresponds to the parse tree of text. Of course, we are missing the serializer and de-serializer for normal Smalltalk code at this point...
-- Yoshiki