Fwd: [KCP] SystemDictionary cleaning: Comments and design feedback needed

Tim Rowledge tim at sumeru.stanford.edu
Mon Jun 9 21:15:24 UTC 2003


Stephane Ducasse <ducasse at iam.unibe.ch> wrote:

> > I would like to continue cleaning systemDictionary.
> > I would like to move away from SystemDictionary
> >
> > - 'memory space' methods
> > 	- I was thinking to create a MemorySpace class
> > - vm related information (listModule, vmParamAt...)
> > 	- into VMSupport
> >
> > - 'snapshot and quit' + 'image, changes name' + condense changes ->
> > 	- into Image
>
I think a simpler move might be to have a SystemInfo class to hold all
the vm/memory/platform related info. Factoring is good but it is
possible to go too far.

tim
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