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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