Introducing Huemul
bryce at kampjes.demon.co.uk
bryce at kampjes.demon.co.uk
Fri May 25 20:17:10 UTC 2007
Bert Freudenberg writes:
> > Sebastian
> > PS: by persistant I mean a smalltalk that has it's instances
> > "living" in a
> > persistent medium and the VM uses the RAM of the computer as a mere
> > cache.
> > Based on the blue book and with some theoretical guidelines from
> > Guille here
> > I've was able to make a prototype of a persistent ST for business
> > objects
> > (it didn't persist contexts and such)
>
> That's how Gemstone Smalltalk works. It's got a transactional object
> memory on disk (arbitrary size) and you can run any number of VMs on
> that image concurrently ... pretty cool.
Magma does a similar thing for Squeak.
Bryce
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