On 10-Jan-06, at 3:48 PM, Avi Bryant wrote:


>
> Well, what Timothy may be asking about is the delay when SqueakMap  
> refreshes the map of available packages.  IIRC, this is done by  
> loading an image segment, which is a primitive, and so *does* block  
> the whole VM.
Fair point and one I didn't think of. The image segment loading  
primitive is very fast though and is only a small part of the job of  
loading and integrating a segment. I was thinking of the generic  
process of loading source packages and compiling them. Should have  
remembered binary loading.


tim
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