more progress... compiler installation suggestions requested
Craig Latta
craig.latta at netjam.org
Wed May 14 02:35:25 UTC 2003
Hi Andreas--
> Do you have a list of the classes?
Sure; I put the results of (Smalltalk printSpaceAnalysis) at
http://netjam.org/squat/space.txt
> I presume you still got some I/O, right? ;-)
Yeah, I still have my proxy system running, so I can send messages to
objects in the small system from another system, over a network.
> What I considered (almost did it) in the past was to define a truly
> minimal format for reading CompiledMethods and providing class
> definitions. Truly minimal, mind you, just enough so that you can get
> the compiler back in. If you formalize this a little it may actually
> make a really nice "binary interchange format" for classes in Squeak.
Yeah, that sounds like a good approach. I think it'd be a
straightforward extension to the network protocol I wrote for
message-passing (and I already support a very crude form of instance
transport).
Mostly I wanted to make sure there I was reinventing the right wheel.
;)
thanks,
-C
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Craig Latta
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