Craig Latta wrote:

>Hi--
>
>	Currently I'm at 388K bytes, with 122 classes and 10,773 objects.
>Twenty of the remaining classes are for compilation. Forty percent of
>total space is taken up by instances of CompiledMethod.
>

Very nice!

>	What do folks suggest as the best way of getting compilation support
>back into the system after it has been removed?
>  
>

Image Segments perhaps?  The packages at the very core (ie, those that 
are required by the compiler) should probably be stored in some object 
based storage (rather than source code) right?  At a minimum, you would 
have the base image without the compiler, and the compiler would be 
stored as an image segment (or some other binary object storage 
scheme).  Maybe you could use stdin for loading objects into the image 
to minimize the I/O support required.

388K is a great accomplishment...can you release the work so far as an 
alpha release so that people can start tinkering with it?

- Stephen