At Sat, 11 Jul 2009 11:01:19 +0200,
Hilaire Fernandes wrote:
> 
> Bert Freudenberg a écrit :
> 
> >> The first step in this direction could be a fast bytecode package 
> >> loader, without the need to compile Smalltalk code.
> > 
> > Indeed. Perhaps you remember the discussions we had about ImageSegments 
> > that loaded classes complete with CompiledMethods? Which is way way 
> > faster than compiling code, and could not only be used to load squeak 
> > apps on top of a fixed image like for Dr Geo on Etoys, but could also 
> > lead to blazingly fast updates, or to very efficient field patches of 
> > deployed software. Maybe bringing this idea up in a separate thread here 
> > on squeak-dev would get some developer intrigued - I for one do find 
> > this a fascinating project.
> 
> I have the felling (unobjective) such feature could make life easier to 
> third party Etoys developer and eventually attract more of them to Etoys.

  But there is (experimental but) such a feature, even with UI to
select classes.

  Yes, it is like .class file; you don't have to recompile it but
merge Symbols and "global" variables.  A new language with separated
pools of shared variables (but no global-global variables) would be
good.

-- Yoshiki