Fast bytecode loader (was Re: [squeak-dev] Re: Squeak vision)
Bernhard Pieber
bernhard at pieber.com
Thu Jul 16 17:51:55 UTC 2009
Am 16.07.2009 um 18:38 schrieb Eliot Miranda:
> This has been done for Smalltalk before. The Digitalk SLL mechanism
> loaded code using a mechanism essentially isomorphic to image
> segments. The VisualWorks parcel mechanism is more like a reference
> stream but optimised for speed of loading (and because its not tied
> to the VM's object format is much more flexible and future-proof,
> and turned out to be very fast).
Just an addition: I think that the version management system Envy
(only used in VA Smalltalk nowadays) also loads bytecode. So I would
even say that bytecode loading is the default way in commercial
Smalltalks.
Cheers,
Bernhard
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