Spoon progress 15 January 2006: new minimum, new system tracer

[stéphane ducasse]

> Hi all--
>
> 	I've reached a new minimum snapshot size (167,224 bytes  
> uncompressed, the previous one from 2003 was 211,504 bytes  
> uncompressed).
>
> 	That's for a system which supports remote browsing. I've also  
> conceived a new design for the system tracer, one that implements  
> it as a feature of the simulator (which didn't exist when the  
> current tracer was written). With this tracer one will be able to  
> write new snapshots without having to trace the object memory in  
> which the tracer is running, and with certainty that every object  
> in the result was required for an interpreter to function.

Craig can you explain a bit more the idea.

> 	I suspect that the smallest "graceful" object memory (e.g., one  
> that just quits) will be something like 1000 bytes. Using Spoon's  
> object memory visualization tools, I've noticed that even the "3  
> plus 4" snapshot from the Fenix project (15,192 bytes uncompressed)  
> has a lot of unnecessary stuff in it (e.g., Characters).
>
>
> 	thanks,
>
> -C
>
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>
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> Craig Latta
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