Not re-created, encoded

Craig Latta craig at netjam.org
Sat Feb 18 17:11:40 UTC 2012


Hi Chris--

> The only thing I don't understand is how encoding data can
> "re-animate" an object on the other side, if the subject image does
> not have a compiler. I used to think Spoon sent serialized compiled
> methods to the subject memory, but we are encoding the
> specifications of compiled methods and sending that over the wire.
> But what agency is building fresh objects with this data? Is this
> something the modified vm does?

     No, this is all done by Smalltalk code. See MethodEdition>>method.


-C

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