Thanks Torge, 

SystemDictionary>>condenseChanges was all I needed; my .changes
now has plenty of room left.

Joshua


On Mon, Oct 20, 2003 at 05:24:15PM +0200, torge husfeldt wrote:
> Hi Schwa,
> Am Tue, 14 Oct 2003 01:10:11 -0400 hat Joshua 'Schwa' Gargus 
> <schwa at cc.gatech.edu> geschrieben:
> 
> >On Mon, Oct 13, 2003 at 09:49:38PM -0700, Tim Rowledge wrote:
> >>"Joshua 'Schwa' Gargus" <schwa at cc.gatech.edu> wrote:
> >>
> >>> Hi,
> >>> > My .changes file is about 33Mb, and I got a message saying that it 
> >>was
> >>> almost at it's size limit,
> >>Ah, if only we had the newer compiled method format in use one
> >>could have arbitrary sized source and changes files...
> >
> >Hmm, that doesn't sound promising :-)
> >(or maybe that should be >:-(   )
> >
> >Looks like I'll be condensing some changes!
> I think you should be able to buy yourself some megabytes
> if you combine your .sources and your .changes file into one single file.
> As the documentation in CompiledMethod>>#sourcePointer points
> out it is the responsability of the concrete SourceFileArray
> implementation to interpret the sourcePointer and itself has
> a range of: 67108863.
> Maybe it would be doable to word-align all sourcePointers and
> then shift them by -2 bits.
> The drawback in both cases is that you have to rewrite all sourcePointers
> and i don't see any tool support for that.
> 
> HTH,
> Torge
> >
> >Joshua
> >
> >
> >>
> >>tim
> >>--
> >>Tim Rowledge, tim at sumeru.stanford.edu, http://sumeru.stanford.edu/tim
> >>Useful random insult:-IQ = dx / (1 + dx), where x = age.
> >
> >
> >
> 
> 
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