I'm New Here - Responce

Lex Spoon lex at cc.gatech.edu
Wed Jul 25 02:25:04 UTC 2001


> Doug Way, about the Smalltalk to C translator. What I really would like to
> have is the ability to translate a Smalltalk application into C code. But,
> as you suggested, a Smalltalk VM would probably be the smarter choice. I
> just worry that the VM will end up being 20Mbytes or larger. As a developer,
> I would prefer a VM of one to two Mbytes for deployment. I've done the major
> shrink and ended up with an image of ~ 800Kb - this may be the best place
> for me to start. I'll look at the GUI-layout tools you mentioned - Thanks!
> 

Bytecodes plus a VM are much more concise than machine code.  VM's
themselves tend to be plenty small... 



Lex Spoon




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