[Newbies] Startup Image

[Michael van der Gulik]

On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 1:22 PM, GeertC <geert.wl.claes at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> What is the first thing the VM does when starting an image?  I want to
> learn
> more about how the image actually works.
>


It runs main() or WinMain().

If you really want to know what the VM does, have a look at the VM source.
See http://www.squeakvm.org/.

Also, see here for a description of how the VM works; Squeak is similar but
different to this:

http://users.ipa.net/~dwighth/smalltalk/bluebook/bluebook_imp_toc.html

The rest of the blue book is available on Stef's book list (Google for it).

Gulik.

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